Flooding sweeps away a bus and a bridge collapses as storm deaths rise to 64

A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding yesterday as more rain fell on northern Vietnam from a former typhoon that has caused at least

Truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s

The report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission yesterday came years after  The commission was launched in December 2020 to review human rights violations linked

For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it’s Japan — not the US — that’s the bigger draw

One by one, the students, lawyers and others filed into a classroom in a central Tokyo university for a lecture by a Chinese journalist on Taiwan and democracy — taboo

Japan and Australia agree to increase joint military training

Japan and Australia agreed today (Thursday) to increase joint military training exercises as their government ministers shared concerns over China's recent incursions into Japanese airspace and territorial waters. Japanese Foreign Minister

Malaysia says it won’t bow to China’s demands to halt oil exploration in disputed waters

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said today (Thursday) that Malaysia will not bow to demands by China to stop its oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea as the

Police arrest a fugitive Filipino ex-town mayor wanted for illegal online gaming scams

A dismissed town mayor who fled the Philippines after being accused of helping establish an illegal online gaming and scam center catering mostly to clients in China has

After the king’s endorsement, country’s new Cabinet with some familiar faces

Thailand yesterday welcomed a new Cabinet after King Maha Vajiralongkorn approved the appointment of 35 members to serve under Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Paetongtarn took office

Pope opens Asia odyssey in Jakarta to rally Catholics, hail religious freedom tradition

Pope Francis arrived in Indonesia yesterday at the start of the longest trip of his pontificate, hoping to encourage its Catholic community and celebrate the tradition

Author Clare Hammond reveals how railways made and broke Myanmar

For three months in 2016, a British journalist working in Myanmar traveled across the Southeast Asian country on trains with a mission to find out where they

Call the elephant movers

When it comes to the niche business of moving elephants, Dr. Amir Khalil and his team might be the best. The Egyptian veterinarian’s résumé includes possibly

Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a four-day workweek

Japan, a nation so hardworking its language has a term for literally working oneself to death, is trying to address a worrisome labor shortage by coaxing

Indonesia and Australia sign defense agreement

Indonesia and Australia signed a defense agreement yesterday that both sides described as a significant upgrade to their military relationship. Indonesia’s president-elect Prabowo Subianto, who

Court sentences a YouTube chef, who is the son of Spanish actors, to life in prison for murder

A court in Thailand yesterday found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison,

Pope Francis is visiting Dili after a clergy abuse scandal, but will he address it?

When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it appeared

An editor says a Myanmar military court has sentenced a local journalist to life in prison

A military court in Myanmar has given a life prison sentence to a local journalist and sentenced one of his colleagues to 20 years after convicting them under

How a summit for the world’s tiniest nations became a global draw

As leaders of Pacific nations were welcomed to their annual meeting in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, yesterday , they were greeted first by torrential rain and then by an

Gunmen kill 31 people in two separate attacks

Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks yesterday and security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials said, in one of the deadliest days

Naval attack ship sinks after hitting unknown object

Malaysian authorities were working yesterday to salvage a 45-year-old fast attack naval ship that sank after it struck an unknown underwater object. The navy said

Hundreds of police raid a religious compound in search of preacher wanted for child abuse

Hundreds of police officers backed by riot squads raided a vast religious compound in a southern Philippine city Saturday in search of a local preacher accused of

Rohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe return

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh yesterday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus, demanding safe return

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