Climate change | India sees clean cooking as climate action that saves lives

Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cookstove with kindling, kerosene and sunbaked discs of cow dung. She breathes in the billowing smoke, as she does for hours every

Afghanistan | Thousands march through capital to protest Hazara killings

Thousands of people marched through the Afghan capital yesterday, carrying the coffins of seven ethnic Hazaras who had been kidnapped and beheaded and calling for a new government that can

Analysis | If Suu Kyi takes power in Myanmar, she faces an uphill task

Once the euphoria over Aung San Suu Kyi’s apparent victory in Myanmar elections subsides, her opposition party will face a variety of hurdles and complications in its struggle to bring

Australia | Standoff ends at immigration detention camp

A standoff between protesting detainees and officials at a remote detention center for asylum seekers in the Indian Ocean ended yesterday after federal police arrived to stop more than a

Myanmar | Opposition: government delaying results deliberately

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, which appears headed for a massive election victory, accused the government election panel yesterday of intentionally delaying results, saying it may be trying

Myanmar | Suu Kyi party projects landslide in historic vote

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party was confident yesterday that it was headed for a landslide victory in Myanmar’s historic elections, as the democracy icon urged supporters not to provoke losing

The Buzz | 2 years after Haiyan, dead still being dug up in Philippines

A Philippine official says bodies of villagers who perished when Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the country’s central region two years ago continue to be dug up, including the skeletal remains of

Tourism | Thailand to launch six month multiple entry tourist visa

Thailand’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) has confirmed that it will be launching a new six-month multiple-entry tourist visa (METV) starting this Friday, the travelandtourworld.com website reported on Saturday. The visa,

Myanmar elections | 5 things to know

Myanmar was holding a general election yesterday, its second since polls in 2010 ended almost a half-century of military rule. Five things to know about the Southeast Asian country: REFORMS President Thein Sein’s

Myanmar | With excitement and hope, millions vote in polls

With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted yesterday in Myanmar’s historic general election that will test whether the military’s long-standing grip on power can be loosened, with opposition leader

Nature | Toxic air in India worse than Singapore haze a test for Modi

The air pollution meter buzzed and spat out a stunning result: levels of PM2.5 - tiny, toxic particles that lead to respiratory diseases - were 27 times the safe limit near the

Myanmar | Suu Kyi eyes post ‘above the president’

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday that she will be the true power above the country’s president if her party wins historic elections this Sunday, circumventing a constitutional

Maldives | Parliament impeaches VP accused of plotting to kill president

A Pakistani official says the death toll in the collapse of a factory building under construction in the eastern city of Lahore has risen to 18. Jam Sajjad Hussain from

Press freedom | Myanmar’s fledgling journalists gird for historic election

Their predecessors suffered torture, imprisonment and death at the hands of a die-hard military regime for more than half a century. Now, Myanmar’s journalists — newly fledged, muscle-flexing but also

Singapore | Young Australian jockey dies in high-rise fall

An up-and-coming Australian jockey died after falling 12 floors to the ground from his Singapore apartment, police said yesterday. Tim Bell, 22, “was found lying motionless at the foot of the

South China Sea | No joint declaration at ASEAN defense meet amid rising China tensions

Divisions within Asia over China’s claims in the disputed South China Sea spilled over yesterday to a meeting of U.S. and Asian defense ministers, where China insisted the group make no public mention of the

Maldives | President declares state of emergency

The president of the Maldives declared a state of emergency yesterday sharply curtailing key rights of citizens for 30 days following an explosion on his speedboat and the discoveries of a homemade

Indonesia | Volcanic eruption closes 3 airports

Thousands of tourists are stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of airports and blanketed villages and farmlands. Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island

Afghanistan | Woman accused of adultery stoned to death

The woman, identified only as Rokhshana, was forced to stand in a deep hole in the ground during the Oct. 24 attack in a village in remote Ghor province of

Philippines | Filipino militants demand USD60m ransom for 3 foreigners

Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen have demanded more than USD60 million for two Canadians and a Norwegian they are holding in the jungles of the southern Philippines in the largest ransom the Muslim

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