South Korea | Spy agency explored technology to hack chat app

South Korea’s beleaguered spy agency has acknowledged exploring the purchase of technologies to intercept communications on the popular Kakao Talk smartphone chatting service, but maintains it only intended to strengthen

Cambodia | Ruling party approves controversial NGO bill

Cambodia’s ruling party lawmakers approved a controversial draft law yesterday that critics say gives authorities sweeping powers to crack down on civil society groups that challenge the government. Riot police set up

Malaysia | Police probe conspiracy to topple PM Razak over 1MDB funds

Malaysian police said yesterday they are investigating the leak of confidential documents that allegedly show millions of dollars were funneled to Prime Minister Najib Razak’s account, an explosive disclosure that

North Korea | Media confirms purging of defense chief

North Korea has officially confirmed the purging of its defense chief two months after Seoul’s spy service said he had been executed for disloyalty to leader Kim Jong Un, a South Korean

Japan | Nintendo President Satoru Iwata dies of tumor

Satoru Iwata, who led Japanese video game company Nintendo Co. through years of growth with its Pokemon and Super Mario franchises, died on the weekend of a bile duct tumor, the company

Afghanistan | Car bombing kills at least 26 civilians near former CIA base

A suicide car bombing near a military base in eastern Afghanistan that once hosted CIA employees killed at least 26 people Sunday, local officials said, the latest insurgent attack after foreign forces

Myanmar | Suu Kyi’s opposition party to run in November polls despite doubts

The Myanmar opposition party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi announced Saturday it will contest the general election on Nov. 8 despite misgivings about transparency, in an effort to challenge

Indonesia | Volcano eruption sparks travel chaos

Ash spewing from a volcano on Indonesia’s main island of Java sparked chaos for holidaymakers as airports closed and international airlines canceled flights to tourist hotspot Bali, stranding thousands. Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport

North Korea | As habitats vanish, migratory birds flock to Pyongyang’s shores

To the untrained eye, it’s just a lot of birds on an otherwise deserted stretch of muddy, flat coastline. But for ornithologists, North Korea’s west coast is a little piece of paradise

Nature | India officials say recent floods killed 10 endangered lions

Monsoon flooding that killed dozens of people in western India last month also hurt the world’s last population of wild Asiatic lions, forest officials said in a report. The floods killed

Thailand | Activists slam repatriation of Uighurs to China

Thailand deported more than 100 Uighurs back to China yesterday, ignoring concerns that the ethnic minority faces persecution by the Chinese government, while protesters in Turkey, which had accepted an earlier batch

Vietnam | Human rights should not obstruct deeper US ties 

The head of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party said Wednesday (yesterday, Macau time) that differences with the United States on human rights should not be allowed to obstruct the deepening of relations between

New Zealand | AC/DC’s Rudd given home detention for threatening to kill

A New Zealand judge sentenced AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd to eight months of home detention yesterday after the musician pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a man who used to work for him,

North Korea | German attempts to break down barriers for deaf

In a country with zero kindergartens specifically for the deaf, Robert Grund wants to help establish the first — just a small suite of rooms for perhaps a couple dozen

Thailand | Trial opens for 2 accused of killing British tourists

Ten months after two British tourists were killed on a resort island in Thailand, prosecutors called their first witnesses yesterday in a case marked by claims that the accused —

Myanmar | Rights group condemns bill on interfaith marriage

Myanmar’s parliament is “playing with fire” by passing a bill regulating the right of women from the country’s Buddhist majority to marry men from outside their religion, an international human rights

Afghanistan | Peace talks between Kabul, Taliban end, plan to meet again

One-day peace talks between Afghan officials and Taliban representatives ended with both sides agreeing to meet again after the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The ministry

India | Youths embrace dating apps despite social taboos

Aditi Mendiratta’s biggest worry as she’s swiping left and right is hiding the smartphone notifications that read “Congratulations! You have a new match” from her parents. “They wouldn’t be cool with

Malaysia | Authorities freeze 6 bank accounts in probe linked to premier

Malaysian authorities have frozen six bank accounts as part of an investigation into allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were transferred from a state investment fund to the personal

Thailand | Military court releases 14 student activists

A military court in Thailand released 14 student activists from detention yesterday but said they still face sedition charges — and the prospect of several years in prison — for

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