Australia | Black Lives Matter award spotlights racial issues

The awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize to the Black Lives Matter movement for its work highlighting American race issues is being hailed by local

Thailand | Foreign ministry cancels passports of ousted prime minister

Thailand has the canceled the passports of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled the country last month to evade a prison sentence that she said was

Japan offers Duterte aid for rebuilding, fighting terrorism

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won pledges from Japan of help with fighting terrorism and assistance in building the country’s crumbling infrastructure, as he met with Japan’s prime

Japan | Ship with sailors rescued at sea reaches US base in Okinawa

Two women from Hawaii who were adrift on a storm-battered sailboat in the Pacific for months set foot on solid ground yesterday at a U.S. Naval base

Korean crisis | Seoul: A North nuke test risks radiation leak at test site

Any future nuclear test by North Korea risks collapsing its mountain test site and triggering a radiation leak, South Korea’s weather agency chief said yesterday. The

Sailboat survivors recount doomed Pacific voyage

Trapped on a storm-battered boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for months, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava were just about out of food and beginning

North Korean ‘masterminds’ evade Kim Jong Nam murder trial

At a trial that could send two Southeast Asian women to the gallows, Malaysian prosecutors are shining a light on several men at large they say masterminded and

Australia | High Court to rule on deputy leader’s fate today

Australia’s High Court will rule today on whether seven lawmakers including the deputy prime minister and two senior ministers are eligible to sit in Parliament in

Indonesia | Explosion, inferno at fireworks factory kills 47

An explosion and inferno at a fireworks factory near the Indonesian capital yesterday killed at least 47 people, most of them female workers who were

Thailand | Funeral for king a five-day marathon of intense solemnity

The exactingly planned five-day funeral for Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej will be governed by strict protocols for how the public and media conduct themselves that are as much about

New Zealand | US Ambassador Brown accepts advice after conduct complaint

U.S. Ambassador Scott Brown told a New Zealand website this week that he accepted advice that he should be more culturally aware after a U.S. inquiry into

Malaysia | Prosecutor to show video of two more suspects in Kim’s murder

Malaysian prosecutors said yesterday that they would present security camera video showing two more male suspects at the airport on the day the estranged half brother of

Vietnam-US | Ghosts of war stirring as Trump preps for Asia trip

For more than 50 years, every American president has been forced to grapple, in one way or another, with the quagmire of the Vietnam War. Now it’s Donald Trump’s

Philippines | Military chief says IS funded siege of Marawi

The Islamic State group sent at least USD1.5 million to finance the recently ended siege of the southern Philippine city of Marawi, with the assault leaders

New Zealand | Ardern aims to go green with electricity, tree planting

New Zealand’s incoming government is hoping to make the nation greener by planting 100 million trees each year, ensuring the electricity grid runs entirely from

The Buzz | Thai army detains activist for royal cremation comment

Thailand’s army yesterday detained an activist who wrote on Facebook that he would wear politically charged red clothing to mark King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s cremation this week. A lawyer for

Kim Jong Nam | Women on trial back to scene of attack on North Korean scion

The two women accused of killing the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were taken back to the scene of the crime yesterday as

Kim Jong Nam murder trial | Who killed Kim’s half brother? Here’s what we know

Eight months after the audacious assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half brother, a Malaysian court is trying to unweave a complicated web of

Malaysia | Toll rises in landslide; 11 dead mostly foreigners

Two more bodies buried by a landslide in a construction site in northern Malaysia were recovered yesterday, bringing the death toll to 11, mostly foreign workers.

Japan | Shinzo Abe heads to impressive election win

Japan’s ruling coalition appeared headed to an impressive win in national elections yesterday, in what would represent at least a partial comeback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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