Christmas attacks by Muslim rebels in Christian villages in the southern Philippines left at least 14 people dead and may have been partly influenced by the notoriety of the Islamic State group,
Indonesian police said they have arrested two more suspected militants including a member of China’s ethnic Uighur minority who was allegedly preparing to be a suicide bomber. National Police spokesman Maj.
The Indian capital, gasping and choking under record-high air pollution, announced a grand plan to clean its air. But that plan seems to be fizzling before it starts. Arvind Kejriwal, the
A New Zealand judge ruled yesterday that colorful Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues can be extradited to the United States to face criminal copyright charges. Dotcom’s lawyers
The image is seared into Australian lore: Under a hot desert sun, a mounted soldier pours the last of his water into his slouch hat to share with his best
A French national carrying extremist material was detained at an Australian airport and subsequently deported two days after the deadly attacks in Paris, Australia’s immigration minister said Wednesday. The man, who
Thailand’s government said yesterday it is not ignoring the slavery and forced labor in its lucrative shrimp industry that was highlighted in an Associated Press investigation published last week. Government spokesman
Rescuers have pulled out 39 survivors and three dead from a passenger boat that sank in central Indonesia after being buffeted by high waves, and resumed efforts yesterday to reach scores of
A Supreme Court decision in Japan this week, widely viewed as a setback for women’s rights and a victory for conservative family values, upheld a 19th-century law that requires married
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy defended on Thursday a controversial proposal to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps base on Okinawa in southern Japan as the best of many options
A Seoul court yesterday acquitted a Japanese reporter of defaming South Korea’s president by reporting that she was spending time with a man during a deadly ferry disaster last year. The
The cackle and cry of Kashmir’s annual bird migration has long been a welcome ruckus for those living in the Indian-controlled Himalayan territory. It signals the summer’s end, the coming
Hundreds of students, some who look as young as six years old, pump their fists in unison on the Pakistan school grounds where Taliban gunmen massacred 134 of their classmates
North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labor yesterday for what it called crimes against the state. Hyeon Soo Lim, who pastors the Light Korean
The top U.S. envoy for East Asia returns to military-governed Thailand this week, hoping for better press than on his last visit a year ago. Local media branded veteran diplomat
A man accused of killing a woman whose bones were found in a forest was charged yesterday with the slaying of the woman’s 2-year-old daughter, whose body was discovered dumped
The president of one of the world’s biggest seafood exporters expressed frustration and promised change today after saying an Associated Press investigation (published yesterday in MDT) that linked slave-peeled shrimp
A Singapore-registered shipping company was found guilty of transferring tens of thousands of dollars used to transport fighter jets and surface-to-air missile systems from Cuba to North Korea in 2013. The
Poor migrant workers and children are being sold to factories in Thailand and forced to peel shrimp that ends up in global supply chains, including those of Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, the
About 725,000 people fled their homes and communities braced for heavy rain and coastal floods of up to 4 meters as Typhoon Melor slammed Monday into the eastern Philippines, officials said. Classes,
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