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South Korea and the United States began annual military drills yesterday despite North Korea’s threat of nuclear strikes in response to the exercises that it calls an invasion rehearsal. Such fiery rhetoric
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s brief but showstopping gig at the Olympics closing ceremony as the Nintendo game character Super Mario offered a tantalizing glimpse at Tokyo’s plans for the
Despite claiming only two gold medals in Rio, North Korea is as determined as ever to fulfill one of leader Kim Jong Un’s primary goals: to become an international sports
The world’s largest bloc of Muslim countries expressed concern over alleged human rights violations in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which has seen weeks of deadly clashes between Muslim protesters and police. Iyad Madani,
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has reimposed an indefinite cease-fire after communist guerrillas declared their own truce as both sides set the stage for a resumption of talks aimed at ending
The Philippines’ brash-talking president threatened yesterday to withdraw his country from the United Nations and lashed out at U.S. police killings of black men in his latest outburst against critics
The defection of a North Korean senior diplomat in London poses a major problem for Pyongyang on a number of fronts — not least of which is how to publicly
The Philippines economy grew faster than economists predicted last quarter, giving a boost to new President Rodrigo Duterte as he seeks to attract more investment and speed up infrastructure spending. Gross domestic
The central bank of Mongolia raised its key interest rate to 15 percent to protect the currency, reversing a cut in borrowing costs to 10.5 percent in May. The Mongolian tugrik initially
A recent remark by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that America wrote Japan’s Constitution is raising eyebrows in Japan. A popular front-page column in the national Asahi newspaper said this week that the
A senior North Korean diplomat based in London has defected to South Korea, becoming one of the highest Northern officials to do so, South Korea said yesterday. Thae Yong Ho, minister
Papua New Guinea and Australia said yesterday they have agreed to close a detention center on Manus Island for asylum seekers but they offered no details on when it will
Australia was making top-level appeals to Vietnam yesterday to lift a sudden ban on veterans commemorating the 50th anniversary of Australia’s most costly battle of the Vietnam War. More than 1,000
An Indonesian sailor swam to freedom yesterday almost two months after he was abducted from a tugboat in the southern Philippines by Abu Sayyaf militants who threatened to behead him,
Indonesia marked its Independence Day yesterday by sinking 60 foreign ships seized for fishing illegally in the country’s waters. Maritime and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said the ships were sunk at
A breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan has appointed a new leader for the group, the nephew of the faction’s longtime leader who was killed in fighting with rivals last year. The
It happens with horrifying frequency in southern Thailand, a country much of the world associates with pristine beaches and alluring, sapphire blue seas: a bomb goes off. Victims are maimed
An adult Indian elephant that became trapped in a swamp in Bangladesh after being caught in raging floodwaters died yesterday after weeks of struggling for survival, a conservation official said. Tapan Kumar Dey,
The operator of the Indonesian capital’s main airport has apologized to passengers for flooding at its brand new terminal after rains overcame drainage pipes and inundated the arrivals area this
At least one paramilitary soldier and four suspected rebels were killed in a series of gunbattles in Indian-controlled Kashmir despite a security lockdown in the disputed region yesterday as India
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