North Korea’s evolving ways to get what it wants and needs

North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades.

North Korea | Under ICBM’s red glare, Pyongyang pretties up its ‘pyramid’

While North Korea’s second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile dominated headlines late last week, Pyongyang quietly unveiled renovations around the capital’s biggest landmark: a futuristic, pyramid-shaped

Australia | Court debates release of Queen’s secret letters

A legal battle over secret letters revealing what Queen Elizabeth II knew of her Australian representative’s stunning plan to dismiss Australia’s government in 1975 opened in federal court

Forget casinos, Singapore’s Indian tourists are cruising

When Indian architect Rahul Maini and his parents embarked on their first trip abroad in May, Singapore was their destination of choice. But the trio wasn’t

Pakistan | Parliament to elect new PM tomorrow

Pakistan’s parliament will meet tomorrow to elect a new prime minister after the disqualification of three-term prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party, which

US bombers fly over S. Korea after North’s second ICBM test

The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula yesterday in a show of force against North Korea following the country’s latest intercontinental ballistic

Australia | Police disrupt plot to ‘bring down an airplane’

Police disrupted the first alleged plot in Australia to bring down an airplane and arrested four men in raids on Sydney homes, officials said yesterday.

Feature | In North Korea, a generation gap grows behind the propaganda

She dances beneath 10-foot portraits of two smiling dictators, a modern young woman in a central Pyongyang plaza who twirls to music calling on North Koreans

Philippines | Mayor linked to drugs, 14 others killed in raids

Police in the southern Philippines said they fatally shot 15 people yesterday, including a city mayor who was among the politicians President Rodrigo Duterte publicly linked

Nature | Hop on! Wild rabbits surf on sheep to flee New Zealand flood

It was a woolly ride, but three wild rabbits managed to escape rising floodwaters in New Zealand by clambering aboard sheep and surfing to safety on their backs.

Opposition head quits, Abe suffers scandal

The leader of Japan’s main opposition party said she is stepping down, citing her failure to regain voter support despite a series of scandals buffeting the ruling

Australia-UK | Boris lends support to free trade deal with Aussies

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that he supports a proposed free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Australia, as his country looks to strengthen

Philippines | Rights groups ask Duterte to retract threat to bomb schools

Human rights groups asked the Philippine president yesterday to retract a threat to order airstrikes against tribal schools he accused of teaching students to become communist rebels, warning such

Maldives urged to restore parliament’s independence

Outside governments yesterday asked the Maldives to restore its legislature's independence, days after the opposition said parliament was locked down on orders from the president in an attempt to

Thailand | Ex-prime minister vows to fight negligence charge

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose bank accounts were frozen this week, says she will fight to prove her innocence as a trial that could put her

Sri Lanka | Army deployed to distribute fuel during strike

Sri Lanka's government deployed army troops yesterday to restore fuel distribution crippled during a strike launched by trade unions who want to stop leases of oil tanks

Boris Johnson welcomes Australian tech entrepreneurs

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson assured concerned Australian tech entrepreneurs yesterday that they will be welcome to continue working in his country after it leaves the European Union. Johnson

Blind Aboriginal musician dies in Australia aged 46

A blind Aboriginal musician renowned for singing in his native Yolngu language with a heart-rending voice and a unique guitar-playing style has died, his recording label said yesterday.

Indonesia | World’s biggest Muslim country puts more women into senior roles

In the late 1980s, Pakistani clerics beseeched Indonesia to pray for them after Benazir Bhutto became prime minister and the first woman to govern a Muslim majority

Vietnam | Activist sentenced to 9 years in prison

A Vietnamese court yesterday sentenced an activist to nine years in prison on charges of producing videos that defamed the country’s leadership, in the latest crackdown on dissent.

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