Indonesia | Authorities increase security after Islamist video calls for terror attack

Authorities increased security across Indonesia after a video appearing on social media threatened attacks against police and other targets, police and officials said yesterday. Security was raised at airports, the presidential

India | Soldiers kill 3 rebels who attack army camp in Kashmir

Three heavily armed rebels stormed an army camp in the Indian portion of Kashmir yesterday and were killed in a fierce gunbattle with soldiers, the army said. A civilian worker with

Briefs | Pakistan – Prison suspends execution of paraplegic inmate

A prison official says Pakistan has have suspended the execution of the only paraplegic inmate on death row. Ahmad Nadeem, the chief of the prison in eastern city of Faisalabad,

Australia | PM talks down prospect of US-led army in Syria

Australia’s prime minister says there is no support among world leaders for the prospect of a U.S.-led army in Iraq and Syria to take back ground from Islamic State militants.

Slavery | Nestle confirms labor abuse among its Thai seafood suppliers

Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestle SA’s supply chains. The unusual disclosure

North Korea | Seoul: Kim Jong Un demotes top official

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is believed to have demoted one of his top officials and sent him to a rural collective farm for reeducation, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers

Thailand | Court indicts 2 for deadly Bangkok bombing

A Thai military court yesterday indicted two foreigners accused of carrying out a deadly bombing at a shrine in Bangkok but questions hang over the case because of the attackers’

Japan | Blast at controversial war shrine injures no one

An explosion yesterday damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured. The Yasukuni shrine, which

Australia | Gov’t says checks on Syrian refugees could take a year

The Australian government remained committed to resettling 12,000 Syrian refugees, but security checks could take more than a year, officials said yesterday. Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced in September that

Bangladesh | Country on high alert after 2 opposition leaders executed

Bangladesh was on high alert yesterday after executing two opposition leaders for war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, despite threats of violence by their supporters and international concerns

Myanmar | Searchers pull bodies from rubble after landslide

Soldiers, police and volunteers pulled body after body from the rubble in northern Myanmar yesterday, as the death toll from a landslide near several jade mines reached at least 113, a

Australia | MH370 hunt moves to where British pilot believes it crashed

The deep sea hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner has shifted to a remote part of the Indian Ocean where a British pilot has calculated that the Boeing 777 made

‘The Assassin’ wins 5 Golden Horse awards in Taiwan

The film “The Assassin” by the veteran Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien has grabbed five awards, including the best director and bestfeature film, at the Golden Horse Awards. The Golden Horse awards are

ASEAN | SE Asia creates economic community, but challenges remain

Thirteen years after mooting the idea, Southeast Asian leaders yesterday formally created a unified economic community in a region more populous and diverse than both the European Union and North

Myanmar | Landslide in jade mine kills about 100; over 100 missing

A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed about 100 people and left more than 100 missing, most of them villagers sifting through a huge mountain of tailings

Bangladesh | Gov’t executes 2 opposition leaders despite concerns

Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders on charges of war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, a senior jail official said yesterday, despite concerns that the legal proceedings against them

APEC declaration | Leaders call for urgent cooperation against terrorism

Asia-Pacific leaders called yesterday for governments to urgently increase cooperation in the fight against terrorism as they wrapped up annual talks haunted by the Paris attacks. “Under the shadow cast by

Canadian newcomer Trudeau a fresh face among APEC leaders 

He’s younger than the next youngest leader by six years and nearly a full generation behind the 60-year-old average age of his Pacific Rim peers. Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 43,

Japan | Sia video features child karate master with Olympic dreams

She has a soft spot for Duffy the Disney Bear and her favorite food is chocolate. She does her homework before dinner but really loves skateboarding, playing video games and

Whaling | Australian court fines Japanese company for contempt

An Australian court fined a Japanese whaling company 1 million Australian dollars (USD700,000) yesterday for violating a court order that it stop hunting whales in an area off Antarctica. Federal Court

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