Thailand | Court sentences six to death for southern bombings

A court in southern Thailand has sentenced six men to death for several bombings in 2016 that killed two people and wounded more than 20, an army

Australia | Court set to rule on whether cardinal stands trial

The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court today to learn whether he must

Japan | Inmate recaptured three weeks after escape, island manhunt

A convicted thief was recaptured yesterday three weeks after a rare escape from a Japanese prison and an island manhunt he may have eluded by swimming. Tatsuma

Afghanistan Terror | Double Kabul suicide bombing kills 25, including 9 reporters

A coordinated double suicide bombing by the Islamic State group hit central Kabul yesterday, killing at least 25 people, including nine Afghan journalists, officials said. An AFP

Briefs | Philippines: WWII sex slaves statue removed

A statue honoring women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II was quietly removed from a busy seaside promenade in the Philippine capital,

Singapore PM: ASEAN growing closer to ‘new powers’

Southeast Asian countries will work more closely with “new powers” China and India to counter the pressure of protectionism and ensure continued growth, Singapore’s prime minister said

US reaffirms its ‘ironclad commitment’ to defend S. Korea

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke on Saturday with their South Korean counterparts after the historic meeting between leaders of the two Koreas, and

Pyongyang to close nuke test site in May

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to shut down the country’s nuclear test site in May and open the process to experts and journalists from

Offbeat | Fruit’s pungent smell mistaken for gas leak, prompts panic

The pungent smell of the rotten durian fruit at an Australian university library has been mistaken for a gas leak, prompting an evacuation of the building.

Kim Jong Un walks south to meet his rival: Can they deal?

There will be plenty to gawk today when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks south across the world’s most heavily armed border and stands face-to-face

North Korea | Geologists say nuclear test site likely collapsed

Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea’s main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring

Myanmar | Forgotten Kachin conflict intensifies in the north

On the front lines, the army is pounding rebels with airstrikes and artillery. In the displacement camps, terrified civilians are building bomb shelters of sandbags and

Koreas | Trump calls Kim open, honorable as summit planning goes on

President Donald Trump said Kim Jong Un wants a historic, high-stakes meeting as soon as possible and suggested the North Korean dictator has been “very open” and

Indian court jails spiritual guru for life in rape case

An Indian court found a high-profile spiritual guru guilty of raping a teenage female devotee in 2013 and sentenced him to life in prison. The verdict

Koreas Ahead of summits, US tones down war games with South

Spring on the Korean Peninsula is normally the season of D-Day-style beach landings with big guns thumping in the distance and skies crisscrossed by the contrails of

Myanmar | Asian elephants said at risk from Chinese demand for skin

A report by a British-based conservation group says rising Chinese demand for products made from elephant skin is driving poaching and posing an even greater threat to Asia’s

Koreas | South halts propaganda broadcasts before summit with North

South Korea halted anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts across their tense border yesterday as officials from the two Koreas met again to work out details of their leaders’

Malaysia | Police release images of suspects in Palestinian killing

Malaysian police yesterday released images of two suspects in the killing of a Palestinian engineer and said they appeared to be European or Middle Eastern, fueling

Cambodia | Census finds increase in Mekong River’s Irrawaddy dolphins

The number of critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins along a stretch of the Mekong River has increased for the first time in 20 years but the animals

Road to N. Korea’s denuclearization is littered with failure

Bill Clinton offered oil and reactors. George W. Bush mixed threats and aid. Barack Obama stopped trying after a rocket launch. While Seoul and Washington welcomed

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