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Macau,
A crippling drought in Vietnam will probably cause the government to miss its 6.7 percent growth target this year, adding to pressure on new Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc as
Interpol says a crackdown on Asian gambling dens and websites during football’s European Championship led to more than 4,100 people arrested and USD13.6 million seized. Police raided nearly 4,000 illegal dens
A 65-year-old Russian adventurer was battling sleep deprivation, freezing temperatures and ice in his oxygen mask but was ahead of schedule for his record attempt to fly solo in a
India’s Parliament was in an uproar yesterday after four men belonging to the low-caste Dalit community were beaten while trying to skin a dead cow in western India. Lawmakers from the
Indonesian officials have banned the playing of “Pokemon Go” from the presidential palace. Hastily printed warnings that say “Playing or hunting Pokemon prohibited in the palace area” were put up around
Asia is embracing bullet trains like never before. Singapore and Malaysia signed an agreement yesterday that will bring a high-speed rail link to Kuala Lumpur by 2026. The long-envisioned plan,
Authorities in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir lifted a three-day ban on the publication of newspapers imposed during massive anti-India protests that left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured,
North Korea’s state radio has recently broadcast strings of indecipherable numbers in a possible resumption of a Cold War-era method of sending coded messages to spies operating in South Korea. Seoul’s
Australia’s prime minister yesterday announced only minor changes to his new cabinet after two ministers lost their seats in elections early this month. Malcolm Turnbull also resisted pressure from the hard-right elements
The Philippines’ crime-fighting president says he plans to ask Chinese officials why some Chinese citizens who visit his country are allegedly involved in illegal drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte, who has vowed
A senior South Korean prosecutor has been arrested for allegedly pocketing millions of dollars following shady stock transaction deals with a leading online game maker, officials said yesterday. Jin Kyung-joon, a
On a quiet suburban California cul-de-sac where neighbors hang wind chimes and grow rose bushes, one three-bedroom house stood out. At night, dozens of cars swarmed outside. Groups of young
A Bangladesh court yesterday indicted 41 people for murder in the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a building that housed five garment factories and became
Officials say investigators in Australia are examining a wing flap found last month on an east African island that is suspected to be from the missing Malaysian airliner. A joint statement by Australian
Representatives of ethnic minorities who have been battling Myanmar’s government for decades said yesterday their meeting with the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was a good beginning
Answering nature’s call was once a nightmare for Rashida Begum, who had to creep around the jungle for a suitably private spot. Her home had no toilet, like the thousands
Nearly a year after a mob in northern India killed a Muslim man over rumors that he had slaughtered a cow, his family faces prosecution for alleged cow slaughter following a neighbor’s
Dozens of Vietnamese who gathered for an anti-China protest in central Hanoi were taken away by authorities yesterday as they tried to rally support for an international tribunal’s ruling rejecting
Ineffectual attacks by the Islamic State group’s followers in Southeast Asia have shown them to be fragmented and lacking in the expertise that has produced devastating death tolls elsewhere in
It’s safe to say this isn’t how Loh Boon Chye pictured his one-year anniversary as chief executive officer of Singapore Exchange Ltd. Not only was Southeast Asia’s biggest bourse forced
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