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Pakistan's prime minister has inaugurated a 340 MW nuclear power plant built with Chinese aid, the third of four such projects aimed at addressing longtime energy shortages. In a
Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan are coming together at Pearl Harbor for a historic pilgrimage to the site where
While lawyers desperately tried to restore the impeached South Korean president’s powers, politics advanced without her yesterday as parties and potential candidates postured for elections that could take place
Philippine authorities said yesterday that anti-narcotics operations have led to the arrest of 10 suspects, including three Chinese nationals, and the seizure of nearly 1 metric ton of methamphetamine,
An Indonesian court ruled yesterday that the blasphemy trial of the minority Christian governor of the country’s capital will proceed. Gov. Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama is
A court in Cambodia yesterday sentenced the country’s exiled opposition leader to five years in prison after finding him guilty of conspiring to incite chaos by posting misleading
India’s Jet Airways said that 12 passengers were injured during an emergency evacuation yesterday after one of its planes veered off the runway before taking off on
A powerful typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines yesterday after killing at least six people and spoiling Christmas in several provinces, where more than 380,000 people abandoned celebrations
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama today, wasn't even born when Japan's former leader Shigeru Yoshida went there just six years after the
Hundreds of Mongolians braved frigid weather yesterday to stage a protest in the country's capital demanding that the government do more to address worsening air pollution that they fear
India successfully test-fired its longest range nuclear-capable missile, confirming its status in the select group of nations with weapons that can travel from one continent to another. Agni-V,
A high-profile North Korean defector told South Korean lawmakers that the massive protests that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye still feel strange to him but he
Japan’s cabinet approved a record defense budget of just over 5 trillion yen (USD42.5 billion) for the year starting April, as tensions with China simmer over disputed islands in
South Korea's Constitutional Court yesterday held its first preparatory hearing in the trial of impeached President Park Geun-hye, whom lawmakers voted to remove over an explosive corruption scandal that saw millions
A Swiss man convicted of blackmail linked to a Malaysian financial scandal was freed this week after serving over a year in a Thai prison. Xavier Justo was one of around 30,000
Pyongyang's pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, which poetically enough was built with some help from Egyptians, is one of the world's strangest landmarks and most conspicuous construction-project fails. Intended to
A van carrying gas cylinders exploded outside the headquarters of a Christian lobbying group in Australia's capital, though there did not appear to be any political or religious motivations behind the
James Taylor has canceled his February concert in Manila, saying reports of summary executions of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines without judicial proceedings are "deeply concerning and unacceptable." The American
Nearly 600 people died in Indian police custody from 2009-2015, many after being tortured, a human rights group said yesterday, urging India to implement a string of often-ignored regulations
The jailed confidante of disgraced South Korean President Park Geun- hye denied on the first day of her trial yesterday that she used her ties to the president to extort money from
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