Asia-Pacific
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CAMBODIA | Political rivals say agreement reached
Cambodia’s yearlong political deadlock appeared to be resolved yesterday as Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rivals agreed on political reforms and the opposition ... -
PHILIPPINES | Aquino hit with impeachment complaint
Twenty-eight people, including prominent activists and a retired Catholic bishop, filed an impeachment complaint yesterday against Philippine President Benigno Aquino III for his implementation ... -
Indonesia election result on schedule as Prabowo seeks delay
Indonesia’s election commission is on course to release the results of the July 9 presidential election today, even as the team of ex-general Prabowo ... -
MH17 | Anti-Russia sentiment running deep in Malaysia
Many Malaysians are urging their government and world leaders to take a tough stance against Russia after pro-Russia rebels allegedly shot down a Malaysia ... -
AUSTRALIA | AIDS conference honors victims of jet crash
An international AIDS conference opened in Australia yesterday with a tribute to several delegates who were killed en route to the gathering when their ... -
China joins counter-piracy part of Hawaii drills
China has been boarding ships looking for mock pirates and contraband as it joins the world’s largest maritime exercises for the first time. Yesterday, ... -
VIETNAM | As women go abroad, dads tend the home
When his wife moved to Taiwan nine years ago to work as a maid — earning far more than she could in the rice ... -
PHILIPPINES | Typhoon kills 12, spares Manila
A typhoon left at least 12 people dead, knocked out power in many areas, damaged a parked plane but spared the Philippine capital yesterday ... -
SOUTH CHINA SEA | Beijing moves oil rig out of waters Vietnam claims
China yesterday moved an oil rig out of waters claimed by Hanoi after two months of drilling that triggered a near-breakdown in ties between ... -
JAPAN | Nuclear plant deemed safe, nears restart
A Japanese nuclear plant won preliminary approval yesterday for meeting stringent post-Fukushima safety requirements, clearing a major hurdle toward becoming the first to restart ... -
S KOREA | Naver says Line messenger app mulls IPO
Line Corp., the operator of a popular mobile messaging app, has submitted an IPO application to the Tokyo Stock Exchange but might also seek ... -
North Korea pushes farmers for more
Rim Ok Hua looks out over her patch of farm just across the Tumen River from China, where rows of lush, green young potato ... -
CAMBODIA | About 40 injured at Phnom Penh opposition protest
Opposition demonstrators disarmed Cambodian security forces and beat them with batons and flag poles in the capital yesterday, and officials said at least 40 ... -
RAMMASUN TO HIT SOUTH CHINA SEA TOMORROW | Hundreds of thousands flee in Philippines from typhoon
Still haunted by a deadly typhoon that struck last year, hundreds of thousands of villagers fled from disaster-prone areas yesterday as a typhoon blew ... -
JAPAN | Underground lab tackles nuclear waste issue
Reindeer farms and grazing Holstein cows dot a vast stretch of rolling green pasture here on Japan’s northern tip. Underground it’s a different story. ... -
CAMBODIA | Copter crash kills 2 military generals
Two generals who led the helicopter unit of Cambodia’s air force were killed in a crash yesterday, along with two pilots, police said. Defense ... -
NORTH KOREA | Testing weapons much more than in past
Another day, another defiant weapons test from North Korea. A day after launching two ballistic missiles from a base near the border with archrival South ... -
Philippines braces for floods from tropical storm
The Philippines was bracing for possible floods and landslides as a tropical storm continued to strengthen yesterday as it moved closer to the country’s ... -
NIUE | Anybody home? Pacific island hit by exodus
It was a school once, but there are no children here anymore. The lonely building on this remote Pacific island now contains only a ... -
Australia says new Japanese ties won’t slow China trade deal
Australia’s agreements with Japan over security and commerce aren’t hampering efforts to strike a free-trade deal this year with China, its biggest economic partner, ... -
THE BUZZ: Singapore removes gay penguin book from libraries
Singapore authorities have withdrawn from libraries two children’s books featuring same-sex couples, sparking controversy amid a debate on gay rights in the conservative city-state, ... -
JAPAN | Hollywood ‘Godzilla’ finally stomps ‘home’
Yuri Kageyama, Tokyo Tokyo is rolling out the red carpet for Hollywood’s “Godzilla” remake although the nation that gave birth to the fire-breathing monster ... -
PHILIPPINES | Police nab Taiwanese, Chinese linked to scam
Jim Gomez, Manila Philippine police arrested 44 foreigners who allegedly ran an online blackmail syndicate that defrauded victims in China and Taiwan by duping them into believing that ... -
Chinese man abducted in Malaysia freed
A Chinese citizen kidnapped in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah a month ago has been freed, the official Xinhua News Agency and a ... -
INDONESIA | Both rivals claim victory in election
Niniek Karmini, Jakarta The rival candidates in Indonesia’s presidential election each claimed victory yesterday, raising uncertainty about the political and legal landscape in a ... -
THAILAND | Raid by police exposes human trafficking ring
A raid at a palm plantation in southern Thailand exposed a ring that trafficked Myanmar’s ethnic minority Rohingya Muslims into the country, police said ... -
MYANMAR | Camp baby a brief chapter in painful story
Esther Htusan, Sittwe Hours after Shamshu Nahad gave birth to her second child, a beautiful baby girl, her husband was digging its grave. The ... -
Australia, Japan sign free trade, defense deals
Kristen Gelineau, Sydney Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe met with his Australian counterpart yesterday to sign agreements bolstering defense and trade ties between the ... -
INDONESIA | Country divided in close presidential race
Niniek Karmini, Jakarta As the world’s third-largest democracy prepares to elect a new president today, Indonesians are divided between two very different choices: a ... -
JAPAN | Powerful typhoon pounds Okinawa islands
A powerful typhoon pummeled the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa yesterday, paralyzing transport and prompting U.S. forces based there to cancel all outdoor activity. ... -
Gandhi to join Churchill, Mandela in London square
Katy Daigle, New Delhi A statue of India’s pacifist freedom fighter Mohandas K. Gandhi will be placed in London’s Parliament Square alongside other famous ... -
SRI LANKA | Hardline Buddhists want Pope Francis to apologize
Bharatha Mallawarachi, Colombo A Buddhist group accused of instigating recent attacks on Muslims in Sri Lanka says Pope Francis must apologize to Buddhists for atrocities ... -
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Australia returns asylum seekers to Sri Lanka
Kristen Gelineau, Sydney Australia’s government confirmed yesterday that it had handed over a boatload of asylum seekers to Sri Lankan authorities in a transfer ... -
KOREAS | North to send cheering squad to South’s Asian Games
North Korea said yesterday it will send a cheering squad to the coming Asian Games in rival South Korea that its athletes plan to ...
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