Japan | Robots do check-in and check out at cost-cutting hotel

From the receptionist that does the check-in and check-out to the porter that’s an automated trolley taking luggage up to the room, this hotel in southwestern Japan, aptly called Weird Hotel,

Japan | Protests rage in Tokyo as Abe’s security bills look to expand military role

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bills to expand the role of the military will go to a lower house vote today, after weeks of debate that has eroded his support

South Korea | Gov’t picks China consortium to lift sunken ferry 

South Korea yesterday selected a Chinese-led consortium as a preferred bidder to salvage a sunken ferry that killed more than 300 people in April last year in one of the

Thai anti-graft law extends death penalty to foreigners

Thailand has enacted a new anti-corruption law that extends a maximum penalty of capital punishment to foreigners as well as Thais. Previous legislation provided various punishments, including a possible death penalty,

Thailand | Trial begins for journalists charged with defaming navy

Testimony began yesterday in a criminal defamation lawsuit filed by Thailand’s navy against a small news website over a report it posted saying naval forces accepted money to assist or turn a

Koreas | Seoul sends 2 North Korean fishermen back home

South Korea said yesterday that it had sent back two North Korean fishermen who were rescued earlier this month from South Korean waters. The two fishermen were returned through the border

India | Stampede kills 27 during religious bathing festival

At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured yesterday in a stampede during a Hindu religious bathing festival on a river bank in southern India. The stampede occurred in Andhra

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,

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