BBC News – Asia

• TikTok: US judge halts app store ban
  The video-sharing app gets a last-minute reprieve from being taken off app stores in the US.
• Dreamworld accident: Australian theme park fined over four deaths
  Four people were crushed to death on a water ride at the Dreamworld theme park in 2016.
• Japanese actress Yuko Takeuchi found dead at 40
  The award-winning actress and mother of two is believed to have taken her own life at the age of 40.
• Deepika Padukone: Bollywood star questioned in Sushant Singh Rajput investigation
  Deepika Padukone and other stars were summoned in a drugs investigation after an actor's death.
• Tasmania pilot whales: Rescuers release 108 surviving animals
  Efforts now turn to the disposal of some 350 whale carcasses after Australia's worst ever stranding.