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
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
Japan’s Emperor Akihito marked his 84th birthday on Saturday with a pledge to fulfill his duties until the day of his abdication in 2019, and to prepare for “passing
North Korea’s envoy in charge of U.S. affairs at the United Nations demanded Washington provide evidence to back up its claim Pyongyang was behind the Wannacry ransomware
A powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the Philippines was downgraded to a tropical depression yesterday and failed to make landfall
The Philippine president has declared a Christmas truce with communist guerrillas and urged them to reciprocate the goodwill gesture after recently scrapping peace talks with
Two men were arrested in Australia after the SUV in which they were travelling rammed into pedestrians on a busy central Melbourne street Thursday, leaving
China’s economic growth will moderate in the next two years as policies to reduce leverage gradually take hold, according to the World Bank. Growth in the world’s second largest
Disaster officials said eight people were found dead after being buried in a landslide Monday while excavating a sand pit on Indonesia’s main island of Java.
A woman was killed during anti-India protests in disputed Kashmir yesterday following a gunbattle that killed two rebels, police and villagers said. Fighting erupted after Indian
President Donald Trump’s administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of
Japan’s Cabinet yesterday approved a plan to purchase a set of costly land-based U.S. missile combat systems to increase the country’s defense capabilities amid escalating threats from
Australia’s government forecast a narrower budget deficit this fiscal year as swelling corporate profits boosted the tax take, even as weak wage growth weighed on collections.
Satellite imagery shows that Rohingya villages in Myanmar continued to be destroyed even as Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement last month to return refugees from the
Authorities have recaptured an American man who escaped from an overcrowded and understaffed prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. Christian Beasley, 32, is believed
A slow-moving storm has left more than 30 people dead and several others missing mostly due to landslides and floods and stranded thousands of holiday travelers
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is set to return to power in his home state, an election that’s considered a bellwether before the national vote
Two suicide bombers attacked a church in the southwestern city of Quetta yesterday, killing five people and wounding 18 others, officials said. Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister
Muslim clerics called for a boycott of American products yesterday in Indonesia’s largest protest against President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Wearing white
A South Korean-born Sydney man was charged yesterday with acting as an economic agent for North Korea in Australia by allegedly attempting to broker sales worth tens
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