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Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed seven police officers yesterday in two separate attacks in the port city of Karachi, police said. The slain officers had been deployed to protect health
Japan’s burgeoning whisky business is driving rice farmer Hiroshi Tsubouchi to hit the booze. With domestic rice consumption sliding, Tsubouchi, 36, says he’s getting on the whisky bandwagon - or,
The Associated Press expose on slavery in Southeast Asia’s fishing industry, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday , was born of a painstaking investigation by four reporters who
Armed militants in Afghanistan staged an assault on a government security agency in the capital yesterday, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320. The Taliban has claimed
The Australian ambassador and Philippine presidential candidates condemned the leading contender’s remark at a campaign rally last week that he “should have been the first” to rape an Australian missionary who was
Japan’s southern quake-hit area was rattled by a strong aftershock yesterday and searchers found a woman’s body buried under landslide rubble, raising the death toll from the twin earthquakes to
The latest crackdown on illegal logging in Cambodia is “just a game” and big timber traders are winning, says Ouch Leng, a former government official who has spent two decades
The twin earthquakes that struck southern Japan were having ripple effects far beyond the disaster zone, forcing Toyota to suspend production at most of its factories across the country, and
Actor Johnny Depp’s wife Amber Heard pleaded guilty yesterday to providing a false immigration document amid allegations she smuggled the couple’s dogs to Australia, but managed to avoid jail time over what was dubbed the “war on terrier” debacle. Prosecutors dropped two more serious charges that
Eleven people remained missing yesterday in southern Japan from two powerful earthquakes that killed 41 people, as the U.S military announced it was preparing to join relief efforts and Toyota said
Two Macau tour groups in Japan have been reported safe after the country was again struck by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday. The Tourism Crisis Management Office (GGCT) received requests
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has struck southern Japan, barely 24 hours after a deadly quake hit the same region. The quake shook the Kumamoto region at
A lawyer for the spiritual leader of the militants who carried out the 2002 Bali bombings is urging Indonesian authorities to end his “inhumane” treatment in prison. The radical Islamic cleric
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 knocked over houses in southern Japan yesterday evening, and police said people may be trapped underneath. Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital said
A strong earthquake that struck Myanmar damaged at least nine Buddhist pagodas and was felt in parts of eastern India and Bangladesh, but an official said yesterday there were no
In a bustling, densely populated corner of Manila, fruit vendor Coring Gutierrez reads USD35 due from her latest water bill, more than triple what her family of six paid 15 years ago. “As
South Koreans voted in parliamentary elections yesterday that were expected to hand a decisive win to President Park Geun- hye’s conservative party, and enable her to push ahead with controversial economic
One North Korean who worked abroad says that as a waitress in China, she was forced to put up with male customers who groped her and tried to get her
To dump or not to dump a little-discussed substance is the question brewing in Japan as it grapples with the aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago.
A Philippine diplomat warned yesterday that any Chinese move to turn a disputed shoal, where the U.S. Navy recently spotted a suspected Chinese survey ship, into an island will escalate
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