South Korea | 10 dead after fishing boat capsizes

Ten people died and an undetermined number of others were missing after a fishing boat capsized off South Korea’s southern coast, maritime officials said yesterday. Three people were rescued and flown to a

Thailand | Police: Suspect’s prints match those on bomb material 

Police investigating last month’s Bangkok bombing said yesterday that the fingerprints of a foreign man arrested at the Thai-Cambodia border match those found on a bottle of bomb-making material, and

North Korea | Pyongyang denies it apologized to Seoul over mine blast

North Korea said yesterday that its recent expression of “regret” over a mine explosion that maimed two South Korean soldiers was not an apology, as Seoul claims — raising doubts about tentative

Singapore | Ruling party faces unprecedented electoral contest 


Singapore's political parties officially started campaigning yesterday for general elections in which, for the first time in the island-nation's history, the ruling People's Action Party faces contests in all available

Australian, Thai journalists acquitted of defaming Thai navy 


An Australian journalist and his Thai colleague were acquitted yesterday in a criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Thailand's navy over an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from

Thailand | Prime minister says main suspect in bombing arrested 


Thailand's prime minister said yesterday that authorities have arrested a man they believe is the main suspect in a bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago that

Thailand | Police seek 2 new suspects in Bangkok bombing probe

Thai police issued arrest warrants yesterday for two more suspects, a Thai woman and a foreign man of unknown nationality, and released their images in the widening investigation into Bangkok’s

Japan | Mothers, students join protests over security bills

Mothers holding their children’s hands stood in the sprinkling rain, some carrying anti-war placards, while students chanted slogans to the beat of a drum against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and

Malaysia | Najib vows not to quit as country marks National Day

Malaysia’s prime minister vowed he would not quit over a USD700-million financial scandal, and accused protesters of showing “poor national spirit” by holding a massive rally to demand his resignation

Thailand | Police arrest foreigner, find passports in Bangkok bomb case

Thai authorities arrested a foreign man they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with bomb-making equipment and stacks of passports, the first possible breakthrough in the deadly

Malaysia | Huge rally for Najib’s resignation enters 2nd day

Big crowds of protesters returned to the streets of Kuala Lumpur yesterday to demand the resignation of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal, after the first day

Philippines | Forbes: Mall tycoon Henry Sy tops rich list

Property, retail and banking tycoon Henry Sy whose conglomerate owns the chain of SM Supermalls in his country and China has retained the title of the Philippines’ richest person for the

Thailand | Court issues warrant for suspect in second bomb blast

A Thai court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for an unnamed suspect in a riverside blast that occurred a day after the bombing of a shrine in central Bangkok which

Japan | After Clinton, US Ambassador Kennedy used private email

Senior staff at the U.S. Embassy to Japan, including Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, have used personal email accounts for official business, an internal investigator said in a report Tuesday (yesterday, Macau time).

Thailand | Authorities destroy more than 2 tons of illegal ivory

Thai authorities destroyed more than 2 tons of seized and smuggled ivory yesterday, in the latest move by the government to avoid possible economic sanctions over a perceived failure to

India | Fresh communal clashes erupt over caste protest

Fresh communal clashes erupted in western India yesterday as police and paramilitary forces tried to quell riots led by members of a farming caste demanding government benefits. Authorities imposed a curfew Tuesday night

Afghanistan | NATO: Men in Afghan uniforms kill 2 foreign troops at base 

Two men wearing Afghan security force uniforms opened fire yesterday inside a military base in southern Afghanistan, killing two NATO service members before being shot dead themselves, the international force

Koreas | Seoul halts propaganda broadcasts as rivals reach deal

After more than 40 hours of talks, North and South Korea pulled back from the brink yesterday with an accord that allows both sides to save face and, for the

Singapore | Gov’t to hold election Sept. 11 in test of ruling party

Singapore will hold a general election on Sept. 11, the government announced yesterday, in what is expected to be a tight contest for the ruling party, which has dominated politics in the

Thailand | Bangkok blast probe hindered by broken security cameras

Up to 75 percent of the security cameras were broken along the getaway path taken by the main suspect in last week’s deadly Bangkok bombing, Thailand’s police chief said yesterday,

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