* China's State Administration for Market Regulation on Saturday released draft antitrust compliance guidelines for internet platforms and invited public feedback.
* The Lao government has reaffirmed its commitment to addressing major economic and financial challenges affecting people from all walks of life, underscoring these efforts as a top national priority.
* A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Liu Haixing, minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended the 11th Meeting of the dialogue mechanism between the ruling parties of China and Russia from Wednesday to Saturday in Sochi, Russia.
* Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have agreed to raise bilateral trade turnover to 10 billion USD by 2030, the presidents of both countries confirmed during a meeting on Saturday.
* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Saturday warned of "precarious" consequences for international peace and security from intensified U.S. military activity in the Caribbean and Latin America.
* Israeli incursions in southern Syria have surged in recent weeks, with more than 30 recorded in the first half of November, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday attended a ceremony in Adiyaman province to deliver newly built post-quake homes, reaffirming the government's commitment to supporting survivors of the 2023 earthquakes. Erdogan said that 38,157 new houses and workplaces had been delivered in Adiyaman over the past two years.
* Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday that its naval forces have seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker off the country's southern Makran coast along the Gulf of Oman over unspecified "violations."
* Two Katyusha rockets were fired from the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus toward residential areas in the city's Mazzeh district late Friday, injuring several civilians and causing material damage, Syria's defense authorities said.
* Lebanese and Hungarian foreign ministers met in Beirut on Friday to discuss political, security and humanitarian cooperation, with Hungary pledging to increase its support for Lebanon.
* The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Friday confirmed that sections of concrete barriers recently erected by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) crossed into Lebanese territory, violating UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and Lebanon's sovereignty.
* Seventy-one irregular migrants were rescued by the Coast Guard of the Libyan National Army in eastern Libya on Friday from a boat found about 250 nautical miles northwest of Benghazi, local media reported.
* The Malaysian economy expanded by 5.2 percent year on year in the third quarter of 2025, driven by sustained domestic demand and higher net exports, its central bank said Friday.
* Kyrgyzstan's GDP increased by 10 percent year on year in the January-October period of 2025, reaching approximately 1,427.4 billion soms (16.3 billion USD), according to preliminary estimates released by the country's National Statistical Committee on Friday.
* Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda said Saturday that the ADB plans to invest up to 2.5 billion USD to support Azerbaijan's development priorities.
* The foreign direct investment (FDI) into Malaysia posted a net inflow, rising from 1.6 billion ringgit (390 million USD) in the second quarter of 2025 to 8.5 billion ringgit in the third quarter, official data showed Friday. The Department of Statistics Malaysia said in a statement that the increase was primarily supported by larger equity injections.
* The Philippines recorded 4,718 measles-rubella cases from January to mid-November this year, 37 percent higher than the 3,434 cases logged in the same period of 2024, the country's Department of Health (DOH) said Saturday.
