Senior diplomats of the U.S. and North Korea are slated to attend a security conference in Beijing next week, but the State Department said Friday there is no plan for direct talks
The detentions of thousands of suspected criminals across Bangladesh led to the arrest of a suspected member of a banned Islamist group accused of violently attacking a publisher last year,
Governor of Tokyo Yoichi Masuzoe was set to accept the Olympic flag in a handover during the closing ceremony at the Rio de Janeiro Games in just over two months. Instead,
New Zealand’s government yesterday agreed to pay a record amount to a 41-year-old man who spent more than 20 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not
The limits of forgiving and forgetting are being tested by the former U.S. senator picked to be board chairman of the new Fulbright University Vietnam: Bob Kerrey, who has described
Philippine officials confirmed yesterday that Abu Sayyaf militants beheaded a Canadian man, the second Canadian hostage to be killed in two months after their demands for a large ransom were
In an effort to better understand and predict South Asia’s seasonal monsoon, British scientists are getting ready to release robots into the Bay of Bengal in a study of how
Southeast Asian stocks are winning fans again, with investors betting a rally that’s driven equities from Bangkok to Manila to the highest levels since the middle of 2015 has room
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will set up dedicated departments to combat money laundering and strengthen enforcement respectively, announced MAS in a press release yesterday. The authority said these changes
A kiss between two male actors has been removed from a production of the musical “Les Miserables” in Singapore following complaints from the public. Singapore’s Media Development Authority told the show’s
Singapore and Hong Kong have been vying for years to hold the crown of most competitive place to do business. Now a clear winner is emerging: Hong Kong. While Hong Kong
Police in Bangladesh said yesterday that they have arrested more than 5,000 criminal suspects in the past few days as they continue a nationwide crackdown to try and stop a
Operators of the ACT college entrance exam on Saturday canceled the tests for students in South Korea and Hong Kong at the last moment over what they said was a
South Korean prosecutors widened their probes into Lotte Group, searching the conglomerate’s headquarters and the offices of some of its units, including those of the hotel subsidiary that’s preparing for
Filipino fans remembering boxing legend Muhammad Ali gathered near the site of his epic “Thrilla in Manila” fight with Joe Frazier for an art and photo tribute Friday. The display near
The top body for greyhound racing in New South Wales, Australia "has charged 179 dog trainers and owners with breaching the industry regulator's rules, for the alleged unauthorized exportation of
Government employees in Singapore will soon lose their internet access at work to make official information systems more secure, authorities said yesterday. The government's Infocomm Development Authority said it has begun
Police in Papua New Guinea fired gunshots yesterday to quell a student protest demanding the prime minister’s resignation, the government said. The country’s police commissioner said nearly two dozen people
A Japanese boy who was found nearly a week after he was abandoned in a forest by his parents as punishment was released from a hospital yesterday and said he
She’s 21, has thyroid cancer, and wants people in her prefecture in northeastern Japan to get screened for it. That statement might not seem provocative, but her prefecture is Fukushima,
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