This Day in History | 1975 – Vietnam’s President Thieu resigns

The President of South Vietnam has been forced to resign accusing the United States of betrayal. In a TV and radio address, outgoing President Nguyen Van

Offbeat | Indian officials to lose red beacon lights atop their cars

India’s officialdom is set to come down a notch. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet announced this week that the red beacon lights that announce the

India | Ruling party leaders face trial in 1992 mosque attack

India’s top court yesterday ordered four senior leaders of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to stand trial over a 1992 attack on an ancient mosque

Philippines | Passengers scream as bus plunges in ravine, killing 31

Passengers were screaming in horror as the bus driver repeatedly hit the brakes, shouting they weren’t working, before the vehicle plunged into a ravine in the

Japan | Pence to Kim: ‘The sword stands ready’

From the wind-swept deck of a massive aircraft carrier, Vice President Mike Pence yesterday warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the U.S. military, promising

Indonesia | Early results show defeat for Jakarta’s Christian governor

Unofficial results showed the minority Christian governor of the Indonesian capital was resoundingly defeated yesterday by his Muslim challenger who swept up votes by appealing to a

Philippines | Duterte offers bounty for extremists in foiled island attack

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered a bounty yesterday for the capture of Muslim extremists behind a foiled attack on a central resort island, and said he ordered

Philippines | At least 26 dead as bus plunges into ravine

At least 26 people died yesterday when the bus they were traveling in apparently lost its brakes and plunged into a deep ravine in a northern Philippine

Australia | PM scraps visa for skilled foreign workers

Australia will scrap a temporary visa for skilled overseas workers, the prime minister said yesterday, arguing that Australians must be given priority over foreigners for local jobs.

India | Tycoon Vijay Mallya arrested in UK on fraud charges

British police yesterday arrested Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya in London on behalf of authorities in India, where he is wanted on charges of money laundering

Japan | Pence: US won’t rest until North Korea gives up nuclear weapons

The U.S. will not relent until it achieves its objective of ensuring the Korean Peninsula is free of nuclear weapons, Vice President Mike Pence said yesterday while

United Nations | North Korea accuses US of creating situation for nuclear war

North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador accused the United States yesterday of turning the Korean Peninsula into “the world’s biggest hotspot” and creating “a dangerous situation in which a

Korea-US | Pence warns North Korea ‘era of strategic patience is over’

Viewing his adversaries in the distance, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing

North Korea | Tensions spike, but Pyongyang barely notices

The clouds of war, it might seem, are gathering around the Korean Peninsula. The North Korean government flaunts an increasingly sophisticated arsenal of intercontinental missiles and launches a midrange

Cambodian-American charged with molesting village boys

Prosecutors in Cambodia have charged a Cambodian-American man with sexually abusing 11 boys aged 10 to 15 years old. Phan Sopheak, a court spokesman in Takeo

Myanmar | Official says UN probe of Rohingya rights abuses unwanted

A top Myanmar official has said that a U.N. agency’s resolution to have an international mission probe alleged human rights abuses by government security forces in troubled Rakhine

Philippines | Militant chief involved in beheadings is killed

Philippine troops battling militants on a central resort island killed a young Abu Sayyaf commander who was involved in the beheadings of two Canadians and a

Korea | Pyongyang calls US aircraft carrier dispatch outrageous

Eric Talmadge, Pyongyang N orth Korea is vowing tough counteraction to any military moves that might follow the U.S. decision to send the USS

Philippines | Troops and suspected militants clash; 9 dead

At least nine people were killed yesterday in a gunbattle between Philippine forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf militants on a central resort island, far from the extremists’

Vietnam | Exports threatened by Trump trade talk

From a possible border tax to higher tariffs, America’s push to reset trade relations is putting Vietnam’s small economy at risk. Vietnam sells a fifth

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