South Korea| Seoul, Tokyo bickering days before 3-way summit with China

Leave it to perpetually squabbling Northeast Asia to spice up that most vanilla of diplomatic activities: the meet-and-greet, photo-op-ridden international summit. South Korea and Japan finally announced yesterday what has long

Hindu Kush earthquake | Afghan death toll rises further as quake survivors await aid

Afghanistan and Pakistan were scrambling yesterday to rush aid to survivors of this week’s magnitude-7.5 earthquake as the region’s overall death toll from the temblor rose to 385. Pakistan’s disaster management

Australia | Authorities to fly Somali refugee from Nauru for abortion

A Somali refugee who alleged she was raped in Nauru will be flown to Australia for a second time to potentially have an abortion, Australia’s government said yesterday, a day

Nepal | Parliament elects nation’s first female president

A Communist leader who has long campaigned for women’s rights was elected yesterday as Nepal’s first female president. Bidhya Devi Bhandari of the Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist received 327

Hindu Kush earthquake | Death toll reaches 339 in quake-hit Pakistani, Afghan areas

Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day’s earthquake rose to 339. According to Afghan and

Indonesia | Jokowi tells Obama Jakarta to join Asia trade pact

Indonesia’s leader looked to cement his nation’s growing ties with the United States, declaring after a meeting Monday with President Barack Obama that Southeast Asia’s largest economy intended to join a

Vietnam war | Lasers may ease pain for ‘napalm girl’ in iconic photograph

In the photograph that made Kim Phuc a living symbol of the Vietnam War, her burns aren’t visible — only her agony as she runs wailing toward the camera, her arms flung

The Buzz | 17 people killed in fire at karaoke bar in Indonesia 

Seventeen people were killed in a fire that raced through a packed karaoke bar yesterday on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, and 71 others were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Witnesses told authorities the fire started

Indonesia| For Jokowi, a chance to build rapport with Obama

Indonesia’s leader is making his first official U.S. visit since sweeping to power a year ago. It’s a chance to build a rapport with an American president with personal ties to

Maldives | President appeals for calm after deputy arrested

The president of the Maldives appealed for calm yesterday, one day after his deputy was arrested on suspicion of links to an assassination attempt against him, and said the arrest

Koreas | South fires warning shots at Northern patrol boat amid ongoing family reunions

South Korea fired warning shots on Saturday at a North Korean patrol boat, as the reunions for families separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War continued, a sign of a thaw

This Day in History | 1979 – South Korean President killed

Five other people, including the president’s bodyguard, were also killed. The incident took place at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters during a dinner being held by Kim in honour

Offbeat | China to supply gasoline to fuel-starved Nepal

China will provide Nepal with 1.3 million liters of gasoline to help it cope with severe fuel shortages as a result of restricted supplies from neighboring India, officials said yesterday. The

Myanmar jade rush muddies promise of change, fuels conflict 

Villagers in the jungles of Myanmar’s northern Kachin state stand upon staggering wealth: Jade worth tens of billions of dollars. Yet they see almost none of that money, even as

North Korea | An obsessive bunch penetrates totalitarian fog

In an anonymous office building in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, in a part of Colorado where cattle ranches fade into strip malls, a gravel-voiced man with a Brooklyn

SINGAPORE | Mega-church head guilty of embezzling USD35 million for wife’s pop career

The founder of a popular Singapore church was found guilty Wednesday of misappropriating more than USD35.5 million in donations to support his wife’s singing career in Asia before helping her break into

Koreas | Separated kin celebrate reunions across DMZ, 1st in more than a year

Hundreds of mostly elderly Koreans — some in wheelchairs or leaning on walking sticks, most overcome by tears, laughter and shock — began three days of reunions yesterday with loved

Philippines | Storm blows away after leaving 20 dead

A storm finally blew away from the main northern Philippine island yesterday, after leaving at least 20 dead over the weekend and forcing 70,000 villagers into emergency shelters and destroying rice fields

Philippines | Typhoon Koppu leaves 11 dead, villagers saved from flood 

Army, police and civilian volunteers rushed yesterday to rescue hundreds of villagers trapped in their flooded homes and on rooftops in a northern Philippine province battered by slow-moving Typhoon Koppu, officials said. The

Afghanistan | Taliban hid in bombed hospital, defense minister says

Afghanistan’s acting defense minister said yesterday that the Doctors Without Borders hospital in the north of the country that was bombed by U.S. forces was being used by insurgents who

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