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Macau,
Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cookstove with kindling, kerosene and sunbaked discs of cow dung. She breathes in the billowing smoke, as she does for hours every
Thousands of people marched through the Afghan capital yesterday, carrying the coffins of seven ethnic Hazaras who had been kidnapped and beheaded and calling for a new government that can
Once the euphoria over Aung San Suu Kyi’s apparent victory in Myanmar elections subsides, her opposition party will face a variety of hurdles and complications in its struggle to bring
A standoff between protesting detainees and officials at a remote detention center for asylum seekers in the Indian Ocean ended yesterday after federal police arrived to stop more than a
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, which appears headed for a massive election victory, accused the government election panel yesterday of intentionally delaying results, saying it may be trying
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party was confident yesterday that it was headed for a landslide victory in Myanmar’s historic elections, as the democracy icon urged supporters not to provoke losing
A Philippine official says bodies of villagers who perished when Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the country’s central region two years ago continue to be dug up, including the skeletal remains of
Thailand’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) has confirmed that it will be launching a new six-month multiple-entry tourist visa (METV) starting this Friday, the travelandtourworld.com website reported on Saturday. The visa,
Myanmar was holding a general election yesterday, its second since polls in 2010 ended almost a half-century of military rule. Five things to know about the Southeast Asian country: REFORMS President Thein Sein’s
With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted yesterday in Myanmar’s historic general election that will test whether the military’s long-standing grip on power can be loosened, with opposition leader
The air pollution meter buzzed and spat out a stunning result: levels of PM2.5 - tiny, toxic particles that lead to respiratory diseases - were 27 times the safe limit near the
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday that she will be the true power above the country’s president if her party wins historic elections this Sunday, circumventing a constitutional
A Pakistani official says the death toll in the collapse of a factory building under construction in the eastern city of Lahore has risen to 18. Jam Sajjad Hussain from
Their predecessors suffered torture, imprisonment and death at the hands of a die-hard military regime for more than half a century. Now, Myanmar’s journalists — newly fledged, muscle-flexing but also
An up-and-coming Australian jockey died after falling 12 floors to the ground from his Singapore apartment, police said yesterday. Tim Bell, 22, “was found lying motionless at the foot of the
Divisions within Asia over China’s claims in the disputed South China Sea spilled over yesterday to a meeting of U.S. and Asian defense ministers, where China insisted the group make no public mention of the
The president of the Maldives declared a state of emergency yesterday sharply curtailing key rights of citizens for 30 days following an explosion on his speedboat and the discoveries of a homemade
Thousands of tourists are stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of airports and blanketed villages and farmlands. Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island
The woman, identified only as Rokhshana, was forced to stand in a deep hole in the ground during the Oct. 24 attack in a village in remote Ghor province of
Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen have demanded more than USD60 million for two Canadians and a Norwegian they are holding in the jungles of the southern Philippines in the largest ransom the Muslim
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