Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been elected for a second term, official results showed, in a victory over a would-be strongman who aligned himself with
South Korea vowed yesterday to move quickly on plans to provide USD8 million worth of medical and nutritional aid for North Korean children through U.N. agencies
Prime Minister Scott Morrison looked set yesterday to form a majority government as vote counting from Australia’s weekend election allayed fears that his conservative coalition may have
Indians voted yesterday in the seventh and final phase of a grueling national election that lasted more than five weeks, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
A jubilant Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed yesterday to get straight back to work after a shock election victory by his conservative government that has left bewildered voters
Eric Talmadge, who as North Korea bureau chief for The Associated Press tenaciously chronicled life and politics in one of the world’s least-understood nations, has died.
The Nation, one of Thailand’s two English-language dailies, has announced it will stop publishing its print edition by the end of June but will continue with an online
Mob attacks on Muslim communities in Sri Lanka’s northwest have left one person dead and dozens of shops and mosques destroyed, a government minister said
North Korea said yesterday it is suffering its worst drought in nearly four decades amid reports of severe food shortages. The official Korean Central News Agency
President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies appeared to have overwhelming leads in elections for the Philippine Senate, one of the opposition’s last bulwarks against a brash populist leader
The leaders of both of Australia’s major political parties agreed yesterday that gays don’t go to hell because of their sexual orientation, as Christian beliefs rose to
A United Nations fact- finding mission urged Tuesday that countries cut off all business with Myanmar’s military as part of efforts to hold the army accountable for human
The parents of a self-exiled Thai activist who disappeared after reportedly being extradited from Vietnam visited government offices and diplomatic missions in Bangkok yesterday to seek
Filipinos voted yesterday in midterm elections highlighted by a showdown between President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies who aim to dominate the Senate and opposition candidates fighting
North Korea fired two suspected short-range missiles toward the sea yesterday, South Korean officials said, its second weapons launch in five days and a possible warning
A court in northwestern Cambodia has summoned for questioning more than two dozen regional members of the defunct opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party, accusing them of engaging in
A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has left for Canada to be reunited with her daughters, Pakistani officials and
Two Reuters journalists whose reporting on the Myanmar military’s abuses of Rohingya Muslims got them imprisoned and drew the world’s attention to curbs on freedom of the
Malaysia’s attorney general said yesterday that the U.S. will return USD196 million recovered from seized assets linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment
Two people have been arrested and an overnight curfew lifted yesterday after mobs attacked Muslim-owned shops and some vehicles in a Sri Lankan town where a
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