Indonesia and Australia hold joint military drills after signing a new defense agreement

The Indonesian and Australian militaries began joint combat drills off Indonesia’s main island of Java yesterday with about 2,000 troops training in air, maritime, amphibious and land

Regulators disqualify a reactor under post-Fukushima safety standards for the first time

Japan’s nuclear watchdog yesterday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, the first rejection under safety standards that were reinforced after

Indonesia’s volcanic eruption grounds international flights on tourist island of Bali

Several international airlines canceled flights to and from Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali yesterday as an ongoing volcanic eruption left travelers stranded at airports. Tourists

Defense secretary doesn’t expect Trump will demand payment for protection

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said yesterday that he didn’t expect President-elect Donald Trump’s next administration would demand that the Philippines pay more for military protection because

Pyongyang ratifies major defense treaty with Russia

North Korea ratified a major defense treaty with Russia stipulating mutual military aid, the North’s state media reported Tuesday, as the U.S., South Korea and Ukraine

New Zealand’s leader formally apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made a “formal and unreserved” apology in Parliament yesterday for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of children

Storm-weary country forcibly evacuates thousands as another typhoon hits

A new typhoon barreled across an agricultural region in the northeastern Philippines yesterday after thousands were evacuated to safety while still struggling to recover from the devastation caused

Authorities suspend railway services in the country’s southwest after deadly train station bombing

Pakistan’s railways suspended all train services yesterday to and from a restive southwestern province where a suicide bombing at a train station over the weekend killed

President angers China with new laws to demarcate South China Sea territories

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed two laws on Friday reaffirming the extent of his country’s maritime territories and right to resources, including in the South China

States back national plan to ban children younger than 16 from social media

Australia’s states and territories on Friday unanimously backed a national plan to require most forms of social media to bar children younger than 16.

Strong typhoon threatens a northern region still recovering from back-to-back storms

A strong typhoon was forecast to hit the northern Philippines yesterday, prompting a new round of evacuations in a region still recovering from back-to-back storms a few weeks

President denies wrongdoing in a growing scandal

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denied wrongdoing yesterday in a burgeoning influence-peddling scandal involving him and his wife that’s severely hurting his approval ratings and

A tiny village where Kamala Harris has ancestral roots is praying for her victory

The temple reverberated with rhythmic Sanskrit and Tamil hymns, as a Hindu priest held a flame before the god. As this tiny South Indian village gathered

South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users

South Korea’s privacy watchdog yesterday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data

India says frontier disengagement with China along their disputed border is ‘almost complete’

India and China have moved most of their frontline troops further from their disputed border in a remote region in the northern Himalayas, India’s defense minister

Asia needs to spend much more to adapt to climate change and limit its damage, bank study says

Countries in Asia will suffer worse damage from the climate crisis than other regions and are falling far behind in spending on improvements to limit the

N. Korea’s long-range missile test signals its improved, potential capability to attack US

North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in almost a year yesterday, demonstrating a potential advancement in its ability to launch long-range nuclear

Troops sent to Russia may be pleased to be there, even as they face ferocious fighting

The thousands of young soldiers North Korea has sent to Russia, reportedly to help fight against Ukraine, are mostly elite special forces, but that hasn’t stopped

A second high court rules that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional

A second Japanese high court ruled yesterday that the government’s policy against same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, the latest in a series of decisions upholding plaintiffs’ demands for

Court orders Najib to enter defense in his second graft trial linked to 1MDB scandal

Malaysia’s High Court yesterday ordered imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak to enter a defense in his second corruption trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of the

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