Chris Barrett

Overjoyed fans have welcomed home ex-Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as he returned to the country after years away. But he was then taken to jail.

Richard Marles is in the Philippines observing joint military exercises. Anthony Albanese is soon to meet its president. All while trying to improve relations with Beijing.

The controversial ruling has been denounced as a setback for democracy by political analysts.

An 81-year-old Joe Biden is likely to face a 78-year-old Donald Trump in the US election. In Indonesia, 70 has been proposed as the maximum age for a candidate.

Anwar Ibrahim says he will not bow to “threats” from other governments and vowed to maintain dialogue with the organisation.

A measure designed to limit traffic congestion in Singapore has pushed the cost of car ownership sky-high in the island state.

It would become the first country in south-east Asia to legalise same-sex marriage and only the third place in Asia to do so, following Taiwan and Nepal.

Police in West Java have swooped on a group of Bangladeshi nationals as they prepared to board a boat to Australia after paying a people smuggler $10,000 each.

The man who clashed with the rugby league personality outside a Rozelle nightspot also suffered a head injury after a bystander intervened in the melee.

The dam, which is four times the size of Sydney Harbour and supplies water to more than 5 million people, began overflowing on Sunday morning.