Papua New Guinea gains a team in Aussie rugby league in diplomatic push

Papua New Guinea will gain its own team in Australia’s rugby league in a soft diplomacy deal announced yesterday linked to limiting Chinese influence in the South

Yoon defends martial law as an act of governance and vows to ‘fight to the end’

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied rebellion charges, vowing yesterday to “fight to the end”

Australia plans to tax digital platforms that don’t pay for news

The Australian government said yesterday it will tax large digital platforms and search engines unless they agree to share revenue with Australian news media organizations.

Ex-defense chief tried to kill himself after being arrested over martial law

South Korea’s previous defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week’s martial law declaration, officials said yesterday, as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s

Prosecutors seek to arrest ex-defense minister over imposition of martial law

South Korean prosecutors are seeking to formally arrest the former defense minister alleged to have colluded with President Yoon Suk Yeol in imposing martial law last week,

Mass evacuation of Philippine villages underway after volcanic eruption

About 87,000 people were being evacuated in a central Philippine region yesterday a day after a volcano briefly erupted with a towering ash plume and superhot

Nauru agrees to give Canberra a veto right over pacts

Australia announced a multimillion-dollar agreement with Nauru yesterday that gives Australia a veto right over a range of pacts the tiny Pacific atoll might want to enter

South Korea’s Justice Ministry yesterday imposed an overseas travel ban on President  But opposition parties vowed to submit a new impeachment motion against him

Indonesia arrests a Chinese man wanted by Beijing over money laundering charges

Indonesian authorities have arrested a Chinese man sought by Beijing for allegedly helping transfer and laundering almost $18 million from a criminal online gambling group in

Opposition parties submit a motion to impeach President Yoon over sudden martial law

South Korea’s opposition parties yesterday submitted a motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over the shocking and short-lived martial law that drew heavily armed troops to encircle parliament

Death sentence for tycoon Truong upheld in largest fraud case

The death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was upheld yesterday in Vietnam’s largest fraud case, the scale of which had raised concerns about

13 women convicted in Cambodia of acting as surrogates for foreign clients

Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted on human trafficking-related charges for acting as surrogates in Cambodia for a ring selling babies to foreigners for cash.

Philippine navy shadows Russian submarine spotted in the South China Sea

The Philippine military deployed a navy ship and air force planes to shadow a Russian submarine, which passed through the South China Sea off the country’s

Central bank cuts key interest rate to nurse a slower economy

South Korea’s central bank lowered its key policy rate for a second straight month and said the country’s economy will grow at a slower pace than it

Police file criminal complaints against VP Sara Duterte and her security aides

Philippine police officials yesterday filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for allegedly assaulting authorities and disobeying orders in a recent altercation

One person is dead and 13 are hurt after a bus carrying foreign tourists crashed

One person is dead and 13 others were rushed to New Zealand hospitals after a bus carrying international tourists collided with two other vehicles on a rural

Authorities arrest Filipino fugitive accused of running a $67 million investment scam

Authorities on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali arrested a Filipino fugitive accused of helping scam over $67 million out of clients in the Philippines, officials said yesterday.

Rebel group takes key Myanmar border town in setback for military regime

A powerful rebel group has seized a key trading town in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese border, taking control of a lucrative rare earth mining hub in

Landslide and flash floods hit Sumatra island, leaving 16 dead and six missing

Rescuers in Indonesia recovered 16 bodies under tons of mud and rocks or that were swept away in flash floods that hit mountainside villages on Sumatra

S. Korea holds memorial for forced laborers at Sado mines, a day after boycotting Japanese event

South Korea paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines in a memorial ceremony yesterday, a day after boycotting a

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