Myanmar | Insurgents attack soldiers in Rakhine, wounding 6

Six Myanmar soldiers were wounded in an insurgent attack in northern Rakhine state, where government troops have been accused of “ethnic cleansing” that forced hundreds of thousands

Malaysia | New search by private company for missing plane approved

Malaysia’s government said Saturday that it has approved a new attempt by a private company to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, nearly four years

Japan | Ex-Toyota head Tatsuro Toyoda, who led overseas drive, dies

Tatsuro Toyoda, the former Toyota Motor Corp. president who led the company’s climb to become one of the world’s top automakers, has died. He was 88.

Malaysian opposition picks 92-Year-old Mahathir to fight Najib

Malaysia’s opposition named Mahathir Mohamad, 92, as candidate for prime minister in an election that must be held by August. Once Malaysia’s longest serving premier,

South Korea | President Moon apologizes to ex-sex slaves over Japan deal

South Korea’s president yesterday apologized to Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan’s imperial army in World War II over what he called a flawed 2015

Indonesia | Inmates riot, set fires at prison in Aceh

Indonesian security forces have retaken control of a prison in the country’s west following a riot yesterday, an official said. The riot began when three inmates

MH370 | Sub-equipped ship departs South Africa to search for missing plane

A U.S.-based company has dispatched a ship into the Indian Ocean in hopes of quickly resuming the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 if it soon secures a

Pakistan | After Trump tweet, minister talks of ‘response’ to US action

Pakistan is ready to face any U.S. action in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tweet on New Year’s Day threatening the country, the defense minister and

Korean Peninsula | North reopens cross-border communications with South

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reopened a key cross-border communication channel with South Korea for the first time in nearly two years yesterday as the

FAQ | Is there a chance for a breakthrough with the Koreas?

After one of the most fraught years on the Korean Peninsula in recent memory — threats of war amid North Korea’s strongest-ever nuclear bomb test and repeated

US-North Korea | Trump boasts of ‘nuclear button’ but doesn’t really have one

President Donald Trump boasted that he has a bigger and more powerful “nuclear button” than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un does — but the president doesn’t actually have

This day in history | 1951 – Communist forces to re-take Seoul

Chinese and North Korean troops are reported to be close to capturing the South Korean capital of Seoul for the second time since the war began last

Sports diplomacy | South Korea offers to talk with North on Olympic cooperation

South Korea yesterday offered high-level talks with rival North Korea to find ways to cooperate on next month’s Winter Olympics in the South. Seoul’s quick proposal

Kim Jong Un | US should know Pyongyang’s nuclear force a reality

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on his New Year’s speech that the United States should be aware that his country’s nuclear forces are now a

42 survive boat capsizing off Indonesia’s Borneo; eight dead

Rescuers have found 42 survivors and are searching for one man still missing after a speedboat capsized off Indonesia’s part of Borneo island. At least eight

South Korean president calls sex slave deal with Japan flawed

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said yesterday the country’s 2015 agreement with Japan to settle a decades- long impasse over Korean women forced into wartime sexual

Myanmar | Illegal drone charges against journalists dropped

A Myanmar court yesterday dropped additional charges against two foreign journalists and their local staff who were arrested in October for allegedly flying a drone over the parliament.

Pakistan says Indian forces killed three soldiers in Kashmir

Pakistan said that Indian forces killed three of its soldiers near the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region. A military statement said the “unprovoked

Vietnam | 10,000 cyber warriors deployed to fight ‘wrongful views’

Vietnam is deploying a 10,000-member military cyber warfare unit to combat what the government sees as a growing threat of “wrongful views” proliferating on the internet, according

Myanmar | Court extends detention for two reporters

A court in Myanmar extended the detention of two Reuters journalists yesterday and set their trial for Jan. 10 on charges of violating state secrets. Wa

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