Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Saturday (June 20, 2026).

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This study presents a concise overview of the unique seismotectonic setting of the Myanmar earthquake. Utilizing the pixel offset tracking (POT) technique and interpretation of high-resolution optical ...

Sri Lanka is one of the world's best places to see Asian elephants and leopards in a compact, wildlife-rich island of rainforests, cloud forests, and dry-zone savannas, with exceptional birdlife and ...

Biological diversity, or biodiversity, refers to the variety of life found in different ecosystems across the planet. Some regions stand out due to their extraordinary concentration of unique species ...

Since achieving independence from Britain in 1948, Myanmar has experienced the world’s longest running civil war. Despite its exhortations as to being the country’s stabilizer, Myanmar’s military, ...

The National League for Democracy's landslide victory in November 2020 catalyzed the Myanmar military's decision to overthrow the democratically elected government on February 1st, 2021, but the ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Jakarta is congested, polluted, prone to earthquakes and rapidly sinking into the Java Sea. Now the government is leaving, and moving the country's capital to the island of Borneo ...

When Luke Ignace thinks about the things he misses most about his home in the Bahamas, he can’t help but think about his barber. Read his story and many more CBC reports related to Black History Month ...

The Sumatran section of the Sunda megathrust generated great earthquakes south of the 2004 event in 1797, 1833 and 1861 (refs 7–9) but there is no historical record of giant earthquakes to the north, ...