Eleven endangered wild elephants were rescued in Cambodia on Saturday, four days after getting stuck in a 3-meter-deep mud hole, officials said. The animals were rescued in
An academic at an Australian university has been prevented by Chinese authorities from returning to Sydney because he’s suspected of endangering national security, his lawyer said yesterday.
The head of an ultra-nationalistic Japanese school operator at the center of a land and political scandal testified in parliament yesterday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated 1 million
Vietnam and Singapore signed several business agreements yesterday during a visit by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong aimed at boosting the island state’s investment and trade with
A 6,800-ton South Korean ferry emerged from the water yesterday, nearly three years after it capsized and sank into violent seas off the country’s southwestern coast, an
An Australian couple with roots in Alaska has bought more than two dozen radio stations in three states, marking the first time federal regulators have allowed full
North Korea’s latest missile launch ended in failure yesterday as the United States sent a supersonic bomber streaking over ally South Korea in a show of force against
Regional politics makes for strange bedfellows, and at first glance, it is hard to imagine more of an odd couple than tempestuous Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his cerebral
Facebook, Google and other multinational companies are now paying tax in Australia based on their Australian profits instead of shifting income to low-tax countries since the government
An unofficial vote count shows a former guerrilla leader has won East Timor’s presidency in the first election without U.N. supervision since peacekeepers left in
South Korea’s just-ousted president said yesterday she was “sorry” to the people as she underwent questioning by prosecutors over a corruption scandal that led to her removal from
An Australian teen who was attacked by a crocodile after jumping into a crocodile-infested river on a dare was recovering from serious wounds to his arm,
The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia met in Tokyo yesterday, with both sides expressing hope that discussions on joint development of islands claimed by
East Timor voted for a new president yesterday in an election that will test Asia’s newest and poorest nation. Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres, a former guerrilla
Tin, her husband and five children have cleared years of refugee hurdles to come to the U.S.: blood tests, interviews, DNA and fingerprints, background checks. She
The Japanese government held its first-ever drill Friday to protect citizens in case a ballistic missile is launched toward Japan. More than 100 residents and schoolchildren
The U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies are rolling out their new stealth fighter jet, a cutting-edge plane that costs about USD100 million each. The
Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won’t prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In
A Philippine lawmaker filed an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday because of the thousands of deaths in his anti-drug crackdown and alleged corruption, although the
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on North Korea yesterday to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, saying the isolated nation “need not fear” the
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