The Maldives’ former leader, who is living in exile in London, said yesterday he plans to contest next year’s presidential election in his country despite an
An American woman imprisoned in Indonesia for killing her mother has retracted statements made in YouTube videos that her boyfriend, also convicted in the same case, was innocent.
Sri Lanka says it needs more time to fulfill promises given to the U.N. human rights body to investigate war crime allegations from the nation’s long civil war, which
The U.S. and India seem like a natural fit in the Trump era: rambunctious democracies, led by populists, focused on economic growth and fighting radical Islam. It’s
Malaysian authorities have seized thousands of paint brushes suspected of containing pig bristles after consumers in this Muslim-majority nation demanded a crackdown, officials said yesterday. Pigs and dogs
An Australian Senate committee has revealed that that country’s mail chief is the nation’s highest paid public servant and made 5.6 million Australian dollars (USD4.3 million) last
Japan is charting its own course to deal with a radically different U.S. president, an approach that will be tested at the end of this week when
A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his car and in his monastery, police said yesterday.
A Thai court yesterday sentenced an Australian man to death for the murder of a countryman who was an alleged confederate in a drug smuggling gang.
An Australian senator and outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump announced yesterday he will start a new political party to appeal to disenfranchised conservatives. Cory Bernardi
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte angrily berated more than 200 allegedly erring policemen on national TV yesterday and said he would send them to a southern island to fight extremists
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Bill English said yesterday he told President Donald Trump during a phone call that he disagreed with his travel and refugee ban but that the conversation remained amicable.
Philippine troops have resumed assaults against communist rebels, killing at least one guerrilla, after President Rodrigo Duterte scrapped peace talks with the insurgents, military officials said yesterday. Duterte
In his debut abroad as the first retired general to lead the Pentagon in more than half a century, Jim Mattis found that in Japan and South Korea
Seven percent of priests in Australia’s Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said yesterday as officials investigating institutional abuse across
Vietnamese gamblers will soon be allowed to place bets on international soccer competitions under a pilot project. Under the decree signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc that takes
The capacity constraints that have dogged the domestic launch of Japan Tobacco Inc.’s heated tobacco device will take a while yet to resolve, according to
Thailand’s military government says it made progress in fighting human trafficking in 2016, aiming for a favorable review from the U.S. State Department in its annual
Indonesian and Filipino students on Saturday protested President Donald Trump’s immigration policy outside the U.S. embassies in their capitals. In Jakarta, dozens of students and activists
Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says U.S. officials are continuing to interview asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru and she expects a deal with the
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