Sabahs election is the first in a series of noteworthy state polls - next up are Melaka, Johor and Sarawak - between now and 2028, by when Malaysias 16th General Election must be held.

Rescuers late on Sunday cleared 80 per cent of the debris and found body parts of the mostly teenage victims.

Analysts note a slow acceleration in Chinese researchers returning from the US this year amid tighter American visa and funding rules. China has also launched a K visa to attract foreign science and tech talent.

Countries have fresh impetus to push back against seeing the world in binary choices, says Sinderpal Singh from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

Villagers and rescue teams have been deployed to help remove snow blocking access to the area.

Matmo caused flooding in the Philippines earlier this week.

Malaysia's foreign ministry said the mission succeeded in "raising further international awareness about the illegal blockcade" by the Israeli government.

First elected to parliament in 1993, 64-year-old Sanae Takaichi has served in key party and government posts, including minister of economic security, internal affairs and gender equality.

Hainan province, which is in the pathway of the storm, hascancelled flights and shut down public transport and businesses in preparation for the storm.

Twenty-six people were still missing.

The new LDP leader will inherit a party in crisis.

Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, and conservative nationalist Sanae Takaichi, 64, are the frontrunners to lead the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), according to opinion polls.

Grand promises about feeding children have fallen foul of rushed implementation and ignoring lessons from abroad, says an Indonesia analyst.

The proportion of inmates over the age of 65 has nearly tripled over the past decade, and they now make up close to 5 per cent of the prison population.

Kim Ju Ae, believed to be around 13 years old, and her aunt Kim Jo Yong have been named by analysts as the next possible ruler of the hermit kingdom.

More than 5,900 recipients have suffered food poisoning since the programmes rollout in January, the National Nutrition Agency says.

The company said it was looking into the possibility of a ransomware attack.

Vietnam is a regional manufacturing hub, and large factories in or near the typhoon's path included some owned by Foxconn, Formosa Plastics, Luxshare and Vinfast.

The frontrunners are former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi and Farm Minister Shinjiro Koizumi.

Undersea servers are kept at a low temperature by ocean currents, rather than the energy-intensive air cooling or water evaporation required by data centres on land.

One of Asia's largest low-cost carriers, the airline has a current all-Airbus fleet of 255 aircraft.

Experts caution that sluggish progress risks derailing Hong Kongs climate targets, leaving the city more vulnerable to extreme heat, rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms.

A new regulation issued in June aims to legalise these wells so long that they meet good engineering practices within four years.