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Indonesia’s leader is making his first official U.S. visit since sweeping to power a year ago. It’s a chance to build a rapport with an American president with personal ties to
The president of the Maldives appealed for calm yesterday, one day after his deputy was arrested on suspicion of links to an assassination attempt against him, and said the arrest
South Korea fired warning shots on Saturday at a North Korean patrol boat, as the reunions for families separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War continued, a sign of a thaw
Five other people, including the president’s bodyguard, were also killed. The incident took place at the Korean Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters during a dinner being held by Kim in honour
China will provide Nepal with 1.3 million liters of gasoline to help it cope with severe fuel shortages as a result of restricted supplies from neighboring India, officials said yesterday. The
Villagers in the jungles of Myanmar’s northern Kachin state stand upon staggering wealth: Jade worth tens of billions of dollars. Yet they see almost none of that money, even as
In an anonymous office building in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, in a part of Colorado where cattle ranches fade into strip malls, a gravel-voiced man with a Brooklyn
The founder of a popular Singapore church was found guilty Wednesday of misappropriating more than USD35.5 million in donations to support his wife’s singing career in Asia before helping her break into
Hundreds of mostly elderly Koreans — some in wheelchairs or leaning on walking sticks, most overcome by tears, laughter and shock — began three days of reunions yesterday with loved
A storm finally blew away from the main northern Philippine island yesterday, after leaving at least 20 dead over the weekend and forcing 70,000 villagers into emergency shelters and destroying rice fields
Army, police and civilian volunteers rushed yesterday to rescue hundreds of villagers trapped in their flooded homes and on rooftops in a northern Philippine province battered by slow-moving Typhoon Koppu, officials said. The
Afghanistan’s acting defense minister said yesterday that the Doctors Without Borders hospital in the north of the country that was bombed by U.S. forces was being used by insurgents who
Kim Wu-jong is partially paralyzed, poor and lives alone in a small, run-down home in Seoul. But the 87-year-old feels like the luckiest man in South Korea: This week he
Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northeastern Philippines yesterday, leaving at least two people dead, displacing 16,000 villagers and knocking out power in entire provinces, officials
Police arrested two teenagers yesterday for allegedly raping a toddler in New Delhi, in the latest incident of sexual violence against a young child in the Indian capital. Police said they
Vietnam said yesterday that a Chinese vessel rammed into and sank one of its fishing boats near disputed islands in the South China Sea in an incident that could further raise tensions
President Barack Obama will keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, according to senior administration officials, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch. Obama
Myanmar’s government and eight smaller ethnic rebel armies signed a ceasefire agreement to end more than six decades of fighting, but other more powerful groups refused to come on board,
Suspected Muslim militants have posted a video purportedly showing for the first time two Canadians, a Norwegian and a Filipino who were abducted from a southern Philippine resort last month
Just when Nepal was recovering from the devastating earthquake that killed thousands, flattened hundreds of thousands of houses and chased away foreign tourists, protests by ethnic groups and severe fuel
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