Head of the Financial Action Task Force says countries around the world must eliminate the problem of shell companies - or face greater monitoring. Countries in SE Asia seen as likely targets.

Trump is back on TikTok, via an account set up by his PR team, despite no deal with Beijing yet on selling the video-sharing app's US operations

Foreign ministry hoses down concern over rocky bilateral ties, says purchases of US arms are still on course, despite differences on Russian oil and other issues

Rare earth mines in Myanmar's southern Shan state are poisoning rivers in northern Thailand with toxic chemicals, creating a health crisis for citizens and a Shinawatra government that may be on its last legs

Days after seeking his resignation, the US President ended up praising Tan and saying the meeting was "a very interesting one."

Nvidia says there are 'no backdoors' in its chips, days after news emerged that Cadence paid $140m to settle US charges it sold goods to a Chinese university simulating nuclear bombs

Leaders accept peace proposal, while debate rages on why fighting flared. Bangkok says it stems from a Thai crackdown on a notorious scam centre operator.

YouTube axes thousands of accounts set up by China, Russia and others in move to counter disinformation. Meta also cut millions of profiles for inauthentic or 'spammy' content

Wells Fargo bank is seeking to help Chenyue Mao, a Chinese-born US citizen who rose to become the bank's managing director in Atlanta

Federal Communications Commission says it wants to guard submarine cables against foreign adversary ownership and access, plus cyber and other threats

Canada said last year it was reviewing sanctions on Chinese surveillance equipment firms, including Hikvision, after rights advocates alleged they aided repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

Germany's data protection commissioner said on Friday she wants Apple and Google to ban use of DeepSeek because the group illegally transfers users' personal data to China