Princess Mako, the granddaughter of Japan’s emperor, will marry an ocean-loving legal assistant who can ski, play the violin and cook. Japanese nuptials tend to be
Thailand backed off a threat to block Facebook on yesterday, instead providing the social media site with court orders to remove content that the government deems illegal.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledged yesterday that allegations he induced extrajudicial killings in his war on drugs could be raised to the International Criminal Court after an
Asia-Pacific navies should extend a code of conduct to submarines to reduce the risk of accidents among the 250 underwater vessels expected to be operating in Asia by
Playing on concerns about the safety of nuclear power in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011, South Korea’s Moon Jae-in promised during his successful
A South Korean cybersecurity expert said yesterday there is more circumstantial evidence that North Korea may be behind the global “ransomware” attack: the way the hackers took hostage
Malaysian authorities said yesterday that they have seized 330 exotic tortoises from Madagascar worth 1.2 million ringgit (USD276,721), in the latest heist of illegal wildlife and animal parts
Philippine lawmakers yesterday killed an impeachment complaint accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of crimes against humanity for the thousands of people who have died in his
North Korea said yesterday the missile it launched over the weekend was a new type of “medium long-range” ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear
For the second time in a week, government lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban — and once again,
The imprisonment of a Christian politician for blaspheming Islam has triggered an outpouring of anger and support around Indonesia. Nightly candlelight vigils have been held in cities across
Authorities in the Philippines have rescued four girls and arrested a mother and two other women for allegedly livestreaming sexually exploitative videos of children to men paying by the minute to
Nepalese were voting yesterday for representatives in municipal and village councils for the first time in two decades, a sign that the country’s fractious democracy may be
North Korea yesterday test-launched a ballistic missile that flew for half an hour and reached an unusually high altitude before landing in the Sea of Japan, the South Korean, Japanese
New Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it’s been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, possum
Six Japanese making a documentary about indigenous people in the tightly controlled Indonesian province of Papua were deported for lacking journalist visas just days after the country was
Chinese President Xi Jinping called his new South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in yesterday to congratulate him on his inauguration, the first time such a call has
Pyongyang will seek the extradition of anyone involved in what it says was a CIA-backed plot to kill leader Kim Jung Un last month with a
The private ride-hailing service Uber officially launched operations yesterday in Myanmar’s main city Yangon, aiming to tap into one of the world’s youngest and fastest-growing online markets.
Australian quarantine authorities yesterday urged travelers through Asia to avoid bringing in hitchhiking amphibians after a passenger arrived at an airport with a dead Indonesian toad in his shoe.
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