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The JAXA lunar probe "SLIM" achieves the first-ever lunar soft landing of a Japanese spacecraft.
2024-01-19

Hong Kong reclassifies 15 countries and territories, including the U.S., France, Malaysia, and Thailand, to the "high-risk" category, which means that beginning on August 20, there will be mandatory 21-day quarantines and tougher boarding requirements for travellers arriving from those countries due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta variant.
2021-08-16

North Korea fires a Hwasong-12 ballistic missile which flies 2,700 km, passing over Hokkaido, northern Japan, prompting the activation of the nationwide J-Alert warning system. This is first time since 2009 that a North Korean missile has passed over Japanese territory.
2017-08-29

Flash flooding in southern Thailand kills at least 18 people.
2017-01-7

The Philippines asks the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague to invalidate China's claims to virtually all of the South China Sea. The hearing was attended by observers from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
2015-07-9

Thailand passes a law banning foreigners from hiring Thai women as commercial surrogate mothers.
2015-02-20

Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
2013-03-17

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes south of Japan; no damage is caused.
2012-01-1

Toyota extends production cuts in Japan and Thailand due to parts shortages caused by the 2011 Thailand floods.
2011-11-4

Newly released cables from Australian intelligence show the intelligence assessment that charges of sodomy laid against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim are due to a "set up job" that he "walked into". Others refer to Malaysia as a "confused and dangerous" state, Thai politicians as corrupt and Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn as "very erratic and easily subject to influence", and Japan as a "big fat loser".
2010-12-12