First Australian business delegation in 14 years to visit Iran

Australia’s trade minister will lead the country’s first business delegation to visit Iran in 14 years after sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program were eased. Steven Ciobo said he will leave today

Philippines | PAL plane safely lands in Manila after smoke seen in cabin

A Philippine Airlines plane en route to Haneda airport in Tokyo returned to Manila’s airport 20 minutes into its flight yesterday after the crew detected smoke in the cabin. The plane with 235 people

Philippines | Duterte to forge closer ties with China, Russia

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has decided to “cross the Rubicon” in his ties with the United States and will open trade alliances and offer long-term land leases to

Offbeat | Python wrapped around armrest halts Japanese ‘bullet’ train

A passenger spotted a python curled around the armrest of another passenger’s seat on a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen “bullet” train, forcing the train to make an unscheduled stop. No one was

How Singapore beat New Zealand to be expats’ top place to live

Singapore has done it again. The city-state beat New Zealand to rank first in a survey of expat destinations for the second year running. Among nearly 27,000 expats in 190

Ex-Thai PM Yingluck should pay USD1b fine, committee says

Former Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was ousted in a military coup in 2014, should be fined about 35 billion baht (USD1 billion) for overseeing a program to

Philippines | Top diplomat says rights respected amid drug crackdown

Despite growing international criticism of his government’s bloody crackdown on illegal drugs, the Philippines top diplomat told world leaders Saturday that the rule of law governs the campaign to eradicate the illicit

North Korean defectors who became Chinese brides end silence

North Korean defectors who became brides for rural Chinese men, they faced another excruciating choice when they suffered abuse: to flee to South Korea and leave their children. Women who’ve made that choice

Thailand | Promises unmet as country tries to reform shrimp industry

Facing international pressure over human trafficking in the seafood trade, Thailand promised almost a year ago to compensate victims of slavery and industry leaders vowed to bring all fish processing

Seoul questions ‘serial offender’ | North Korea’s UN membership

North Korea’s repeated flouting of U.N. Security Council resolutions by conducting nuclear and missile tests calls into question its suitability for membership of the world body, South Korea’s top diplomat

US flies bombers over South Korea again in show of force

The United States yesterday flew a pair of supersonic bombers over ally South Korea for the second time in as many weeks in a show of force following North Korea’s latest nuclear test earlier this month. U.S.

Thailand | Court finds British activist guilty of defamation

A Thai court found a British labor activist guilty yesterday of defaming a fruit canning company, and gave him a suspended prison sentence in a case that has raised serious

North Korea | State media says gov’t successfully ground tests new rocket engine

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen a ground test of a new rocket engine and ordered a satellite launch preparation, state media said yesterday, an indication the country

The Buzz | Thai river boat death toll climbs to 27 as helmsman arrested

The helmsman who operated a passenger boat that sank in a Thai river over the weekend has been arrested for violating navigation laws as the death toll climbed yesterday to

Australia | Damage to Great Barrier Reef costs ship owner USD30 million

The Australian government reached a 39.3 million Australian dollar (USD29.6 million) settlement with the owners of a Chinese coal carrier to pay for environmental damage caused when the ship ran

Indonesia | Study estimates 100,000 deaths from forest fires’ haze

Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks last year may have caused more than 100,000 deaths, according to new research that

Japan | ‘Children’s cafeterias’ combat poverty, neglect

Laughter and lively chatter filled a room at a modest apartment in Tokyo one recent Thursday night as more than two dozen kids and volunteers gathered around tables laden with curry,

Death toll rises to 18 in Thai boat sinking, others missing

Searchers in Thailand have recovered 18 bodies and are continuing to look for at least 12 people missing from a heavily loaded boat that sank in a river over the

Norwegian says his Philippine kidnapping was ‘devastating’

A Norwegian man freed by militants after a year of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines described the ordeal yesterday as “devastating,” carrying a backpack with a bullet hole as

Aung San Suu Kyi gets humanitarian award

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been honored as the 2016 humanitarian of the year by students and faculty at the Harvard Foundation. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate gained

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