North Korea reportedly test fires missile, challenging US

North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early yesterday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to President Donald

Feature | Concert halls call on this Japanese engineer to shape sound

Behind some of the world’s most reputed concert halls is a Japanese engineer whose finesse in shaping sound is so perfectly unobtrusive that all listeners hear

Nature | More than 200 whales swim away after New Zealand stranding

Whale lovers in New Zealand finally got some good news yesterday after more than 200 stranded whales managed to refloat themselves overnight and swim away, while volunteers

New Zealand | Men convicted of gay sex to have records wiped 

Gay men in New Zealand who were convicted of homosexuality more than three decades ago when it was considered a crime will soon be able to have their records cleared.

Philippines | Rebels stage new attacks, condemn Duterte for ending talks 

Communist guerrillas abducted three villagers, including a policeman, and burned construction equipment in new attacks in the Philippines yesterday and condemned President Rodrigo Duterte as a “double- speaking thug”

US officials stop vetting Nauru refugees for resettlement

U.S. officials stopped screening refugees held on Nauru for potential resettlement in the United States this week but will return to the Pacific atoll to continue working

Maldives | Exiled former leader wants to contest presidency

The Maldives’ former leader, who is living in exile in London, said yesterday he plans to contest next year’s presidential election in his country despite an

US woman retracts claim boyfriend innocent in Bali killing

An American woman imprisoned in Indonesia for killing her mother has retracted statements made in YouTube videos that her boyfriend, also convicted in the same case, was innocent.

Sri Lanka to ask UN for more time to probe war crimes

Sri Lanka says it needs more time to fulfill promises given to the U.N. human rights body to investigate war crime allegations from the nation’s long civil war, which

Analysis | Visa changes could stunt budding US-India ties under Trump

The U.S. and India seem like a natural fit in the Trump era: rambunctious democracies, led by populists, focused on economic growth and fighting radical Islam. It’s

Malaysia | Authorities seize pig-hair brushes after Muslims complain

Malaysian authorities have seized thousands of paint brushes suspected of containing pig bristles after consumers in this Muslim-majority nation demanded a crackdown, officials said yesterday. Pigs and dogs

Australia | Mail chief makes ten times more than the PM

An Australian Senate committee has revealed that that country’s mail chief is the nation’s highest paid public servant and made 5.6 million Australian dollars (USD4.3 million) last

Japan-US | With golf and gifts, Japan’s Abe cuts own path with Trump

Japan is charting its own course to deal with a radically different U.S. president, an approach that will be tested at the end of this week when

Myanmar | Buddhist monk arrested with four million meth pills

A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his car and in his monastery, police said yesterday.

Thailand | Australian sentenced to death for drug killing

A  Thai court yesterday sentenced an Australian man to death for the murder of a countryman who was an alleged confederate in a drug smuggling gang.

Australia | Senator says will start new conservative party

An Australian senator and outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump announced yesterday he will start a new political party to appeal to disenfranchised conservatives. Cory Bernardi

Philippines | Duterte angrily scolds 228 police officers on TV

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte angrily berated more than 200 allegedly erring policemen on national TV yesterday and said he would send them to a southern island to fight extremists

New Zealand | English has ‘sensible, polite’ talk with Trump

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Bill English said yesterday he told President Donald Trump during a phone call that he disagreed with his travel and refugee ban but that the conversation remained amicable.

Philippines | Regular troops resume assaults on rebels after talks scrapped

Philippine troops have resumed assaults against communist rebels, killing at least one guerrilla, after President Rodrigo Duterte scrapped peace talks with the insurgents, military officials said yesterday. Duterte

New Pentagon chief Mattis a hit in Japan, South Korea

In his debut abroad as the first retired general to lead the Pentagon in more than half a century, Jim Mattis found that in Japan and South Korea

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