A lengthy tussle heated up yesterday between Singapore’s prime minister and his siblings over the last wishes of their father, the founding leader of the city-state. The feud offers a
The Philippine government learned days in advance of a plan by militants aligned with the Islamic State group to lay siege to a southern city and
The Australian government has reached a settlement of around 90 million Australian dollars (USD68 million) with more than 1,900 asylum seekers who sued over their treatment at
South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho has an answer to where the controversy over the theatrical releases of Netflix movies started: his cinematic ambition. Bong said yesterday
Dennis Rodman, the former NBA bad boy who has palled around with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, flew back to Pyongyang yesterday for the
Heavy rain triggered landslides that killed at least 68 people in southeast Bangladesh, officials said yesterday, as police and soldiers struggled to reach the remote districts
Indonesia says it’s looking to set up joint patrols with the Philippines and Malaysia to prevent Islamic militants who have laid siege to a city in
A suspected North Korean drone photographed a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea before it crashed near the border where it was found last week, Seoul’s Defense
Thai police have arrested three Chinese men who they say operated a so-called “click farm,” using hundreds of cellphones and several hundred thousand SIM cards to run up “likes” and
Filipinos marked their country’s Independence Day by raising the national flag yesterday in a southern city where troops pressed assaults to quell a three-week siege by
Police in Singapore have detained a preschool assistant who shared pro-Islamic State group materials online and intended to travel to Syria, their first arrest of a female Singaporean citizen
Security officials in Bangladesh’s capital have arrested six members of a banned militant group and accused them of planning to kill an outspoken Islamic scholar for his stand against
A strong earthquake rocked western parts of Indonesia’s main island early yesterday, causing panic but no immediate reports of damages or casualties. The National Disaster Management Agency said the earthquake shook
A childhood New Year’s holiday spent playing cards with his family planted the seeds of a gambling compulsion that ravaged decades of one man’s
From the third-story window of a barren government office building he now squats in as a refugee, Nasir Abdul is watching his city being destroyed. Nearly
Japan’s parliament on Friday passed a law allowing Emperor Akihito to become the country’s first monarch to abdicate in 200 years, but put off a debate over how to tackle
North Korea’s latest launches of several suspected anti-ship missiles were short-range and landed well short of past efforts, but they still served as a defiant message
Fishermen joined navy and air force personnel yesterday in recovering bodies and aircraft parts from the sea off Myanmar, where a military plane carrying 122 people including 15
A military transport plane with 120 people on board went missing yesterday on a flight from southern Myanmar to Yangon, a military spokesman said. There were fears it
A retired U.S. Navy commander in Hawaii charged in a growing corruption scandal pleaded guilty yesterday to lying about his relationship with a Malaysian defense contractor known by the
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