Vietnam has granted amnesty to more than 4,000 prisoners, including one sentenced to five years in jail for a national security-related crime. Giang Son, deputy chairman of the President’s
South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s conditional resignation offer appears to be causing cracks in what previously had been a strong push for her impeachment, with opponents
Thailand’s parliament yesterday named Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn as the new king, completing a formal step for the heir to take the throne following the death of his father
The head of Malaysian electoral reform group Bersih, which led a mass anti-government rally this month, has been freed after being held for 10 days without trial under a
Japanese health authorities have confirmed a highly contagious avianflu strain in poultry in two prefectures in northern Japan, with culling of hundreds of thousands of birds starting yesterday at the affected farms. The
The Philippine government’s top historian resigned yesterday to protest the president’s decision to allow the burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes’ cemetery, in a growing
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said yesterday that she’ll resign — if parliament arranges the technical details — in her latest attempt to fend off impeachment efforts and
Seven people were injured when a Chinese airliner struck turbulence as it approached Sydney airport yesterday, officials said. Five passengers and two crew members were taken to a hospital
In the late-night hours and amid the chirp of crickets, Katryn welcomed a huddle of exhausted Filipino journalists in cheerful spirits like she was home. “Coffee?” she
South Korea’s embattled president accepted the resignation of her justice minister yesterday, the latest in a series of personnel reshuffles she’s made amid a political scandal that’s threatening her leadership.
An amusement park in western Japan sparked an uproar after it displayed about 5,000 dead fish in the ice at a skating rink, forcing the park to close the
India is set to clear the ride-hailing services of Uber Technologies Inc. and Ola by issuing guidelines to make them legal, according to a person with knowledge of
Seven people were killed and another person was missing after a chartered fishing boat disappeared from view in large waves at the entrance to a harbor near Auckland, New Zealand authorities
Singapore’s army is sending a team to Hong Kong to secure nine of its armored personnel carriers that were seized by customs authorities while in transit through the southern Chinese territory,
Communist guerrillas warned that a peace deal with President Rodrigo Duterte’s government is unlikely to be reached if he won’t end the Philippines’ treaty alliance with the United
Continued engagement by the United States with Asia under President-elect Donald Trump would be good for both the region and America, the head of the Asian Development Bank said
Tokyo residents woke up yesterday to the first November snowfall in more than 50 years. And the Japan Meteorological Agency said it was the first time fallen
A rare condition known as thunderstorm asthma sent hundreds of people to hospitals in Australia’s second-largest city, and four deaths had been confirmed by yesterday. Family confirmed
A top Cambodian court yesterday upheld the life sentences for the two most senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge regime, which is responsible for the deaths of
A self-confessed drug dealer, whose father was killed in an alleged gun fight in prison, has testified before a Philippine Senate investigation that he provided police officials and an
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