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When ‘TCG Card Shop Simulator’, a new simulation video game, launched to impressive commercial success in September, few realised it was the work of a solo developer from Malaysia. — Picture via Steam/TCG Card Shop Simulator

Meet the solo Malaysian developer behind ‘TCG Card Shop Simulator’, the ‘Buatan Malaysia’ video game that’s a hit with fans worldwide (VIDEO)

Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar’s faithful. — AFP pic

Leave no stone unturned: Myanmar’s sculptors navigate war zones to secure marble for sacred statues

A waiter serves Gaza-style turkey shawarma sandwiches, wrapped in paper with the Kefiyeh pattern. — AFP pic

Welcome to Cairo’s ‘Little Gaza’: Where Palestinians have rebuilt their lives as war continues to ravage their homeland

Start Without a Shot has received a positive reception from war veterans and psychologists who treated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sufferers following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing which killed three and injured hundreds. — AFP pic

How can you start a marathon without a gunshot? Here’s the answer for runners with PTSD 

East Germany’s ‘Ampelmann’ or pedestrian traffic light man is now instantly recognisable thanks to his chunky outline and wide-brimmed hat. — AFP pic

How East Germany’s ‘Ampelmann’ traffic light man survived the fall of the Wall to become a national icon

The yet-to-be-named female calf was born Monday at the Buluh Cina nature tourism park in Riau Province on the western island of Sumatra. — AFP pic

Another ‘tiny’ miracle: Conservationists celebrate the birth of critically endangered Sumatran elephant calf

A file photograph shows baby pygmy hippo at the  Khao Kheow Open Zoo. — Picture from Twitter/KhaokheowZoo

Moo Deng the baby hippo predicts Trump win in US presidential elections

Boasting strict daily exercise regimens, mandatory trips to the scale and rigid surveillance to guard against snacking, weight loss camps have popped up across China. — AFP pic

No snacking, no escape: Inside China’s weight-loss camps where rules are unbreakable

Awang Ali said he enlisted his son to help lift a Proton Saga and a Perodua Kancil onto the roof in just half an hour using a crane last Thursday. — Picture via Facebook

Memang solid: ‘I could fit four more up here,’ says Ayer Hitam man who went viral for parking two cars on his roof

Be prepared for two nights of laughter, music and dance with ‘The Big LOL Show!’ — All images courtesy of LOL Asia

LOL Asia to celebrate 15 years of laughter with ‘The Big LOL Show!’ on Dec 13 and 14 with an all-star, two-night anniversary spectacular

This photograph taken on October 22, 2024 shows a student sitting amid Urdu books stacked at the Hazrat Shah Waliullah public library, in Urdu Bazar in the old quarters of Delhi. — AFP pic

Fading literature: Delhi’s famed Urdu Bazaar on last legs amid Hindi dominance, misconceptions as ‘foreign’ and ‘Muslim-only’ language

Due to the lack of parking, Awang Ali Abdullah decided to have a crane lift up the two cars so they would be out of the way and he said it took only 30 minutes. — Screengrab from TikTok

Man goes viral for parking his two Proton Saga cars on a roof, all for a wedding (VIDEO)

In South Korea, it is a crime to hide a dead body even for those who did not caused the death. — File picture by Reuters

South Korean confesses to keeping deceased dad’s body in freezer for more than a year over ‘inheritance’

All the world’s volcanoes currently 'release less than one per cent as much carbon to the atmosphere as human activities.'

Study: Could volcanoes be hiding the answer to managing CO2 and climate change?

The world's largest captive crocodile, Cassius is pictured at the Marineland Melanesia on Green Island, Great Barrie. — AAP Image via Reuters pic

World’s largest captive crocodile Cassius dies in Australia

The special exhibit will be open from November to February next year. — Picture via Instagram/hellokitty_exh

Hello Kitty fans storm Tokyo National Museum exhibit to grab limited edition merch (VIDEO)