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Macau,
Fifteen years into the war that few Americans talk about any more, conditions in Afghanistan are getting worse, preventing the clean ending that President Barack Obama hoped to impose before
Seventeen kangaroos have died after being deliberately run down by a driver in Australia, an animal welfare group said yesterday. The carcasses of 16 kangaroos were found yesterday along a 100-meter
In Japan, where communal ties to local Buddhist temples are fading, families have in recent years been able to go online to find a Buddhist monk to perform funerals and
Rock legend David Bowie wanted his ashes scattered in Bali “in accordance with the Buddhist rituals,” and he left most of his estate to his two children and his widow,
Switzerland’s prosecutors are seeking legal assistance from Malaysia after a probe into a government investment fund revealed “serious indications” that about USD4 billion may have been misappropriated from state companies in
A Chinese ship equipped with advanced sonar equipment will soon join the search for the Malaysian airliner believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean almost two years ago,
A teenage suspect discussed with a British accomplice packing a kangaroo with explosives before setting it loose on Australian police officers, prosecutors alleged yesterday. Sevdet Ramadan Besim was ordered in the
The Philippine economy grew 5.8 percent in 2015, short of even lowered government expectations after being hampered by a weak world economy, El Nino and slow government spending in the
Japan’s economy minister resigned yesterday as he fended off corruption allegations, in a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s effort to rev up growth in the world’s third-largest economy. Akira Amari
An American university student’s arrest in North Korea has rekindled questions about whether a small but steady trickle of U.S. tourists who go to the country are unwittingly offering themselves
The restored plane made a brief flight to and from a naval base in southern Japan. Decorated former U.S. Air Force pilot Skip Holm flew the aircraft. Zero fighters were considered one of the
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III gave a red-carpet welcome to Japan’s emperor yesterday in a sign of blossoming ties between the two nations, both mired in territorial disputes with China, while
A visit by Japanese Emperor Akihito to the Philippines this week is the latest in a series of trips that are seen as an attempt to show his commitment to
Japan’s emperor said yesterday that his nation must remember the tremendous loss of life in the Philippines during World War II, as he and his wife began their first visit
After sweating through unseasonably high temperatures last week, residents of semi-tropical Thailand have had to scavenge through their closets for sweaters and scarves to keep the chill off their bones. Temperatures
Two elderly South Korean women abused by Japan’s wartime military-run brothel system are in Japan to reject a recent settlement agreement between the two governments and demand that Prime Minister
Vietnam’s Communist Party chief easily won a seat on a key committee yesterday, the first step toward retaining his position as head of the collective leadership of the country. General Secretary
Vietnam’s pro-business prime minister has effectively withdrawn from a contest to become the Communist Party chief, clearing the way for his rival to keep the post in what appears to
Divided opinions within Vietnam’s Communist Party on how to relate to giant neighbor and one-time ally China are among key factors in play at an eight-day congress to choose new
A Japanese rocket maker said yesterday that a large piece of metal that washed up on a beach in Thailand is likely part of a rocket launched by Japan, not
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