The North and South Korean militaries completed withdrawing troops and firearms from 22 front-line guard posts on Saturday as they continue to implement a wide-ranging agreement
The economic difficulties that have beset South Korea this year are unlikely to ease much in 2019, according to Hong Nam-ki, the nation’s new finance minister. “Next year
Thailand’s Democrat Party retained Abhisit Vejjajiva, a former prime minister, as its leader ahead of a general election expected in 2019 that would end more than
A Christian woman acquitted after eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy was released but her whereabouts in Islamabad yesterday remained a closely guarded secret in the
A draft U.N. resolution would strongly condemn the continuing “gross human rights violations and abuses” against Rohingya Muslims and urgently call on Myanmar’s government to end discrimination and provide
Vietnam strongly protested China’s launch of weather stations in the disputed Spratly islands, saying yesterday they seriously violate Vietnam’s sovereignty and complicate the situation in the
The Democratic victory in the U.S. House of Representatives could echo from Moscow to Beijing to Riyadh, with empowered Democrats now able to launch new investigations
The Kremlin says it hopes that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia next year. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri
A Malaysian court set January 7 for two Southeast Asian women charged with murdering the North Korean leader’s half brother to begin their defense, as their lawyers complained that
Vietnam and the United States said yesterday they have finished the cleanup of dioxin contamination at Danang airport caused by the transport and storage of the herbicide
Tens of thousands of Sri Lankans marched yesterday in support of a new government led by the country’s former strongman, highlighting the political polarization in the Indian
Health authorities in Thailand are racing to contain a measles outbreak in the country’s southern provinces, where 14 deaths and more than 1,500 cases have been
China and India are closely watching the constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka, which has been a battleground in their struggle for geopolitical supremacy in South Asia.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel — both hoping to get out from under U.S. economic sanctions — have agreed to expand and
THE former leader of a resource-rich eastern Malaysian state was charged yesterday with allegedly receiving bribes for the award of timber concessions amid a widening crackdown on
A shark critically injured a man yesterday near an island harbor on Australia’s Great Barrier reef where two tourists were mauled on consecutive days in September, officials said.
Indonesia called on Boeing Co. to fix its 737 Max aircraft, saying the Lion Air plane that crashed in the Java Sea last week had faulty airspeed
The Justice Department announced charges last week against a fugitive Malaysian financier and two former Goldman Sachs bankers accused in a money laundering and bribery scheme
Investigators succeeded in retrieving hours of data from a crashed Lion Air jet’s flight recorder as Indonesian authorities yesterday extended the search at sea for victims
A majority of voters in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia chose to remain part of France instead of backing independence, election officials announced yesterday as French
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