SEOUL, April 9 — The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, will announce his bid for the South Korean presidency, Yonhap News Agency reported today.

SUBANG, Jan 27 — Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has arrived in Malaysia to undertake a State Visit to the country today at the invitation of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 — Kuala Lumpur Football Association (KLFA) president Syed Yazid Syed Omar has announced that he would not be contesting for the FAM president position.

NEW YORK, Dec 17 — Donald Trump yesterday lost a bid to overturn his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in light of the United States Supreme Court’s July ruling recognising immunity from prosecution for a president’s official acts.

CARACAS, July 29 — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term with 51 per cent of the vote, the country's electoral authority said just after midnight on Monday, despite multiple exit polls which pointed to an opposition win.

TAIPEI, May 20 — Lai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan's new president on Monday facing an angry and deeply suspicious China which believes he is a "separatist", and a fractious parliament with an opposition chomping at the bit to challenge him.

DUBAI, May 20 — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim became the first leader to congratulate Prabowo Subianto, who was yesterday announced as the official winner of the Indonesian Presidential Election (Pilpres) 2024.

JAKARTA, Feb 15 — After months of uncertainty, Indonesians on Thursday woke to a new presumed president, ex-special forces commander Prabowo Subianto, who appeared in unofficial counts to comfortably win the hotly contested election in a single round.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 — Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman has stepped down as Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) president with immediate effect after he was found guilty of abetment in criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of property and money laundering involving Angkatan Bersatu Anak Muda (Armada) funds.

MANILA, Oct 19 — Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Thursday that the government is still committed to starting operations of a sovereign wealth fund by year-end.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah Alhaj today congratulated Tharman Shanmugaratnam who was sworn in as Singapore’s ninth president yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong will be challenged by former central committee member Tan Chong Seng for the post of Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA president in the party polls on Sept 24.

SEPANG, March 20 — Singapore President Halimah Yacob arrived in Malaysia today for a three-day maiden state visit until March 22.

COLOMBO, July 13 — Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, two sources told Reuters, hours before he was due to step down amid widespread protests over his handling of a devastating economic crisis.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah congratulated Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr on his appointment as the 17th President of the Philippines.

MANILA, June 30 — Ferdinand Marcos starts his six-year term as Philippines president on Thursday facing a host of challenges, from rising inflation and pandemic recovery to balancing relations between competing superpowers the United States and China.

MANILA, May 25 — A joint session of the Philippines Congress on Wednesday declared Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the notorious late dictator, the winner of this month's election and confirmed he would become the country's next president.

JAKARTA, May 20 — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was inaugurated and sworn in early Friday morning as the President of Timor Leste for the period of 2022 to 2027, making it the second time for him to lead Southeast Asia's youngest nation.