Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (Aug 12) ...

Next to a Chinese temple and an Instagram-friendly mural village, Taiwan's M1A2T tanks lay in wait amid the island's Han Kuang annual drills.

New York City and MTA officials are looking at a potential project that would capture excess heat on subway platforms in the summer to warm nearby buildings in the winter.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state transit officials announced a plan to study a heat-capture system that could cool a notoriously hot train station and help heat city buildings in the winter.

Beijing deploys 72 robots to tackle extreme heat, enhancing climate response efforts with innovative technology for better urban heat management.

Malaysian durian orchard owner Stephen Chow’s workers spend hours in the fields in the dead of night, donning headlamps to ...