North Korea | Security heightened even as hermit kingdom tries to woo tourists

So you’re thinking of taking an exotic vacation, having a little adventure and coming back with lots of stories for your envious friends and colleagues. Believe it or not, North

India | Flooding closes airport, cuts off power in Chennai

Weeks of torrential rains have forced an airport in southern India to close and have cut off several roads and highways, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded in their

Myanmar | Suu Kyi meets outgoing president for transition talks

Nearly a month after her party’s resounding election win, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi held closed-door talks with Myanmar’s outgoing president yesterday to discuss what both said they hope

Pakistan | Authorities hang 4 suspected militants over school attack

Australia’s weather bureau has refused to comment on a media report that it has been hacked in a major cyberattack that compromised sensitive systems across the federal government. Australian Broadcasting

Philippines | US Marine found guilty of killing transgender Filipino

A Philippine court yesterday convicted a U.S. Marine of killing a Filipino last year after he discovered she was a transgender woman in a hotel in the Philippines while he

Indonesia | Rudder problem, pilot actions led to AirAsia crash

The National Transportation Safety Committee said an analysis of Flight 8501’s data recorder showed the rudder control system had sent repeated warnings to the pilots during the Dec. 28 flight

South Korea | Parliament ratifies free trade pact with China

South Korea’s parliament yesterday approved a free trade pact with China after opposition lawmakers secured a USD1.4 billion relief package for farmers. The ratification, which comes five months after the trade pact was

Australia-Mexico | Mexican authorities search for 2 missing Australian tourists after report men’s van found

Friends of two Australian tourists missing for more than a week in Mexico are looking to work with authorities in determining what happened to the men following a report that

New Zealand | Malaysian diplomat pleads guilty to indecent assault

A Malaysian military officer who was extradited to New Zealand after earlier leaving the country under the protection of diplomatic immunity pleaded guilty yesterday to indecent assault. Muhammad Rizalman Ismail faces

Japan | Whaling fleet set to leave for Antarctic

  J apan’s whaling fleet will leave today for the Antarctic for a three-month, scaled-down hunt, the government said, despite protests from opponents who say Tokyo has not proven that whales need to

New Zealand | Thousands crowd Eden Park for Jonah Lomu memorial

World Rugby Chairman Bernard Lapasset led the tributes to Jonah Lomu at a public memorial yesterday, saying the former All Blacks winger was a giant whose contribution to the sport

In S. Korea, a town of Kims – and an unusual shared history

Many of his students are Kims. So are his fellow teachers, an elementary school alumnus and the owners of restaurants and pubs that he patronizes in his small farming village.

North Korea | Launch of missile from sub may have failed

A North Korean launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine appears to have failed, Yonhap News reported, underscoring the technological limitations of the isolated nation’s weapons program. The launch was

Philippines gets 1st fighter jets in a decade amid sea feud

The Philippines on Saturday took delivery of two Korean-made fighter jets — the country’s first supersonic combat aircraft in a decade — as it strengthens its underfunded military amid an

Japan | Gov’t plans to deploy troops near disputed islands

Japan’s deputy defense minister met with the mayor of a southern island yesterday to seek his support for the planned deployment of hundreds of troops in the region including nearby disputed

Australia | Wildfire kills at least 2 and injures 13 others

Firefighters contained a large wildfire yesterday that had caused at least two deaths, 13 injuries and destroyed at least 16 homes near the southern Australian city of Adelaide, officials said. Two

South Korea Professor gets 12 years for feeding ex-pupil feces

A former South Korean university professor was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday for habitually beating his former pupil and forcing him to eat human feces and drink urine. Three

Koreas | North, South hold border talks to discuss improved ties

Officials from the two Koreas met yesterday at a border village to try to realize high-level talks as part of their agreements that defused a military standoff in August. The rivals

Myanmar | Search ends for victims of jade mining landslide

Police in northern Myanmar said yesterday they have ended efforts to find bodies in a jade mining landslide that killed more than 100 people and highlighted the perilous conditions created

Afghanistan | Doctors Without Borders hospital said to be misidentified before being bombed

The crew of a U.S. warplane that attacked a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan last month, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, misidentified the target, believing it to

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