Heritage |Lincoln to Thai king: Thanks but no thanks for the elephants

The elephant is Thailand’s national animal, so it’s only natural that King Mongkut in 1861 offered to send a pair to the United States as a gift

Thailand | 18 dead as tour bus loses control, crashes off road

A chartered tour bus lost control on a downhill curve in Thailand’s northeast and slid off the side of the road, killing at least 18 people and injuring

Philippines | Police kill 13 drug suspects in daylong raids

Philippine police said they killed 13 drug suspects and arrested more than 100 suspected dealers and criminals in 24 hours of raids in a province with

Cambodia rejects joint statement of human rights concern

Cambodia’s ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva yesterday rejected a statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council endorsed by 45 nations that urges improvements in the

Korean crisis | From DMZ to ship at sea, Trump-Kim summit site rumors swirl

With just weeks to go, there’s still no official word on where President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will hold their unprecedented

South Korea | Facebook fined for limiting user access

South Korea’s telecoms regulator has fined Facebook for illegally limiting user access to its services from late 2016 to 2017. The Korea Communications Commission said

Japan | Cult members could be hanged any day for subway attack

Thirteen Japanese cult members may be sent to the gallows any day now for a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes.

Iraq recovers bodies of 38 Indians abducted by IS in 2014

Iraqi authorities have discovered a mass grave with the bodies of 38 Indian construction workers abducted when Islamic State militants overran the northern city of Mosul in

India | Wildlife sanctuary sees jump in one-horned rhinos

A tiny wildlife sanctuary in northeastern India has reported a jump in the number of one-horned rhinoceroses. All of the world’s five rhino species are under

S. Korea K-Pop singers to perform in North

South Korea said yesterday it will send a 160-member artistic group to North Korea, including about 10 celebrated K-Pop singers, for rare concerts there. The South

Philippines | Fire at Manila hotel-casino put out; death toll raised to five

Firefighters found two more bodies yesterday in a hotel-casino gutted by fire that sent thick, heavy smoke into the sky over the Philippine capital, raising the

US, South Korea, Japan discuss denuclearization, summits

Top U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials discussed how to achieve the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula during weekend talks ahead of upcoming inter-Korean and

Australia Suu Kyi welcomed to Canberra amid protests

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was feted in Australia with a military honor guard and 19-gun salute yesterday as part of a state visit that has

Singapore still world’s costliest city

Singapore is the world’s most expensive city for the fifth straight year in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Worldwide Cost of Living report, with Paris

Indonesia | Bali’s Day of Silence shuts airport, clears beaches, streets

Indonesia’s normally bustling Bali has shut down social media, closed the airport and shuttered all shops for a Day of Silence that marks New Year on the

Vietnam | 50th anniversary of My Lai massacre commemorated

With talk of peace and cooperation rather than hatred, more than a thousand people marked the 50th anniversary Friday of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam,

Southeast Asia leaders urge tough stance on N. Korea

Southeast Asian leaders and Australia’s prime minister yesterday called on North Korea to end its nuclear program and urged U.N. countries to fully implement sanctions against the country. Leaders

Philippines | Duterte can’t evade accountability by quitting court

Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said Duterte did not decide to withdraw from the Rome Statute, which established the international tribunal, to escape accountability but to

Pakistan | School dance, anyone? Punjabi lawmakers seek ban

Pakistani lawmakers in a provincial assembly have voted in favor of a ban on dance parties at schools and other educational institutions, saying they promote Western

Nepal | Authorities struggle to identify plane crash survivors

Authorities in Nepal are struggling to identify the survivors of a deadly plane crash earlier this week, with many of the injured badly burned,

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