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Human rights groups accused Australia yesterday of deliberately ignoring the alleged abuse of asylum seekers being held at a remote Pacific island detention facility in a bid to deter future
A medium-range ballistic missile fired yesterday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometers and landed near Japan’s territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by a North Korean
Two buses plunged into a flooded river after an old bridge collapsed in western India, leaving at least 22 people missing and feared dead, an official said yesterday. Rescuers had not found
He has seen the body, and authorities say the fingerprints match. But Towhid Rouf is having trouble believing that this skinny, bearded man — killed with eight other suspected Islamist
Japan’s Cabinet approved a fresh economic stimulus package yesterday worth more than 28 trillion yen (USD275 billion), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s latest effort to get the stalling recovery back on
President Barack Obama found common cause with the leader of Singapore in the face of growing political headwinds against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, warning that to “pull up a drawbridge” on trade would
An American man jailed in the Philippines for more than five years was freed yesterday after being acquitted of rape. A court in metropolitan Manila cleared Scott McMahon, of Seattle, after finding no
The Bank of Japan shares part of the blame for the volatility in markets and investors can expect another seven weeks of this after Governor Haruhiko Kuroda ordered a “comprehensive
An erroneous alert yesterday that a massive earthquake had hit the Tokyo area sent many in Japan into a brief panic and disrupted some train services. The Japanese Meteorological Agency sent
Cambodia’s prime minister filed a defamation lawsuit yesterday against the country’s opposition leader and an opposition lawmaker for suggesting the authorities were involved in the killing of a popular political
An organization likely run by North Korea’s government hacked into the email accounts of dozens of officials, journalists and others in South Korea this year, Seoul officials said yesterday, the
More than 100,000 students in Bangladesh linked their hands yesterday to form human chains to protest two attacks last month by suspected Islamist militants. The students from hundreds of colleges and universities in
Indonesia will mark its Independence Day later this month by sinking as many as 71 foreign vessels that were seized for fishing illegally in the country’s waters. Maritime and Fisheries Minister
Thailand’s military government says it intends to sue a former prime minister for billions of dollars in losses it alleges were incurred by her administration’s rice subsidy program. The Cabinet official
Tokyo yesterday elected its first female governor to lead the city as it prepares to host the 2020 Olympics, as voters turned to a leader promising clean politics after two
A Pakistani official said the death toll from a bus that was swept away by flash floods has risen to 27. Government official Iqbal Khan said yesterday that the bodies
Indonesia executed four people convicted of drug crimes on Friday despite international protests and said it would decide later when as many as 10 others who got an unexpected reprieve are
India’s foreign minister said the government is providing food aid to thousands of Indian workers in Saudi Arabia who are not able to buy food after losing their jobs in
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday threatened to withdraw a ceasefire order he gave three days ago after suspected communist rebels killed a government militiaman and wounded four others in an attack. After
North Korea’s top diplomat for U.S. affairs told The Associated Press yesterday that Washington “crossed the red line” and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its
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