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A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island yesterday , shaking residents awake, causing damage to buildings and prompting emergency services to warn people along the coast to move to higher ground
In Nepal, health warnings cover 90 percent of cigarette packs, while Australia requires those packets be wrapped in drab, plain paper. Indonesia’s new ban on outdoor advertising
Singapore police identified Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, as a “key person of interest” in a money laundering probe surrounding 1Malaysia Development Bhd.,
A Japanese journalist deported from Iraq denied yesterday allegations by Kurdish officials that he is a sympathizer of the Islamic State extremist group. Kosuke Tsuneoka told reporters in Tokyo
Vietnam’s government is scrapping plans to construct the country’s first two nuclear power plants, citing slowing demand for electricity and the declining price of other sources of energy, state
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, center, gestures as he poses with Philippine Coast Guard officers Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the continuation of joint military exercises with U.S.
Indians awakened to confusion yesterday as banks and ATMs remained closed after the government withdrew the highest-denomination currency notes overnight to halt money laundering in a country where
Scrambling to defuse a massive scandal, South Korean President Park Geun-hye yesterday conceded to lawmakers the power to name her new prime minister, a move that could seriously hurt, or even destroy, her ability to
Laos has notified its Southeast Asian neighbors that it’s moving ahead with a third contentious hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River’s mainstream. The Mekong River Commission, an organization that groups together
The Philippines’ Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos can be buried at a heroes’ cemetery, a decision that opponents said rolled back the democratic triumph of
New Zealand regulators yesterday made a preliminary decision to reject a merger between the country’s two main newspaper groups. The Commerce Commission said the proposed merger would result in one company
A German kidnapped by Somali pirates eight years ago may now be held captive by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines, the country’s military said yesterday after finding the man’s yacht
Police say a British teacher has been found dead with chest and head wounds in a colleague’s apartment in Yangon and another British man is the suspect. The body of 47-year old Peter
Myanmar’s commercial capital is fast shedding its sleepy backwater trappings as the city builds new roads, hotels and office buildings, but the Circle Line railway remains a world apart from the traffic jams
British Prime Minister Theresa May and her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, held talks yesterday aimed at deepening ties between their countries and boosting trade and investment as the U.K. prepares to leave the
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has accused “political actors” of inflaming tensions after a mass rally in Jakarta against the city’s Christian governor turned violent. Police on Friday fired tear gas at
Philippine police killed a town mayor in his jail cell in a purported gun battle, the second killing in a week of a politician linked to illegal drugs under President Rodrigo
South Korean prosecutors yesterday formally arrested two former presidential aides as they bring their investigation over a bizarre political scandal that has engulfed the nation a step closer to President Park
India’s capital announced a slew of measures yesterday to combat the crippling air pollution that has engulfed the city, including closing down schools, halting construction and ordering that all roads
They were poor and vulnerable — nobodies trying to make a living in a sophisticated and clinical metropolis far from their island villages. They were brutalized by a member of
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