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Thailand’s telecommunications regulator has approved in principle a plan to issue special SIM cards to foreign tourists so they can be tracked through their mobile phones. Officials at the National Broadcasting
A Japan Airlines jumbo jet has crashed on a remote mountainside 70 miles (112km) from Tokyo in Japan. There were 15 crew and 509 passengers on board, mostly holidaymakers. There are no
Australia’s first attempt to conduct a census online was in disarray after several cyberattacks and a hardware failure led to the website being shut down, officials said yesterday. The Australian Bureau
Nearly four months later, the final victim of two deadly earthquakes in southern Japan may have been found. Searchers yesterday saw what appeared to be a body in the wreckage of
A special tribunal for war crimes during Bangladesh’s independence war against Pakistan in 1971 sentenced a former lawmaker to death and seven others to life in prison yesterday on charges
Japanese Emperor Akihito’s video message this week, though subtle, suggested that he wishes to abdicate, and the attention now goes to his elder son, the first in line to Japan’s
A leading gay rights advocate and former judge yesterday urged Parliament to prevent a popular referendum on legalizing gay marriage in Australia. Michael Kirby, a former High Court judge who headed
The U.S. government has expressed concern over extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and users in a bloody crackdown overseen by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and urged his government to
One of India’s most prominent political activists ended a 16-year hunger strike yesterday, licking honey from her hand and declaring “I will never forget this moment.” Irom Sharmila had been force-fed
Dismissing its neighbors’ pleas, impoverished Laos is rapidly building a Mekong River dam that threatens fisheries crucial to millions of Southeast Asia’s poorest people. The site of the Don Sahong dam,
A suicide bomber killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens in an attack that struck a gathering of Pakistani lawyers on the grounds of a government-run hospital in the
Japan’s emperor expressed concern yesterday about fulfilling his duties as he ages, in a public address that was remarkable for its rarity and its suggestion that he would like to
Hun Sen says his growing potbelly is getting in the way of his golf swing. The Cambodian premier, who is known for his casual comments, went off track yesterday while responding to
Thai voters yesterday overwhelmingly approved a new junta- backed constitution that lays the foundation for a civilian government influenced by the military and controlled by appointed — rather than elected —
A senior Afghan police official regarded as one of the country’s most powerful men has banned the use of the Pakistani currency in the key southern province of Kandahar. The police
The Philippine president has given the goahead for the burial of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos at a heroes’ cemetery and says he’ll allow anti-Marcos protesters to hold public demonstrations against
Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a radical Islamic cleric who was convicted of funding a terror training camp. Abu Bakar Bashir, known as the spiritual leader of the
Two men who had not been heard from since last month’s restaurant attack in Bangladesh were arrested yesterday on allegations they were involved in the deadly siege carried out by
In an interview with The Associated Press, a senior official at North Korea’s version of NASA said international sanctions won’t stop the country from launching more satellites by 2020, and that he
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong posting Instagram photos? Interesting, but not unusual. He does it all the time. But Singapore’s leader posting them from inside the White House, on the
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