For years, Pakistan did not put prisoners to death. Then a Taliban attack butchered 150 people, most of them children, and the country resumed carrying out the death penalty and
Thai police said yesterday that a key suspect has admitted to meeting the alleged Bangkok shrine bomber outside a train station and handing him a heavy backpack containing a bomb
North and South Korea agreed yesterday to hold reunions next month of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, a small but important bit of progress for rivals that
A multi-million dollar deal to resettle refugees from an Australia-run detention camp on the Pacific nation of Nauru to Cambodia has been irreparably damaged by a Rohingya refugee’s decision to
Just five years ago, when Aung San Suu Kyi was still under house arrest, she commented that one day she hoped to get a Twitter account and chat with the
A key suspect in last month’s deadly Bangkok bombing was transferred yesterday to police custody after a week of military interrogation, and was asked to acknowledge the charge against him
Australia’s prime minister said yesterday that his country will resettle a “significant” number of refugees from Syria this year, while the opposition called for an additional 10,000 refugee places to
North and South Korea started talks at a border village yesterday on resuming the reunions of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, Seoul officials said. The talks among the
The Supreme Court in Bangladesh has lifted a ban on the screening of a movie about a garment worker who was rescued from the rubble 17 days after a factory
A court hearing dealing with allegations that Johnny Depp’s wife, Amber Heard, illegally brought the couple’s dogs to Australia was adjourned yesterday until November. Heard was charged in July with two counts of
A group of strongly built young men gathers early in the morning in the suburbs of Yangon to work on their fighting skills. Some of them jump on cast-off tires
Thailand’s military-backed legislature yesterday rejected an unpopular draft of a new constitution, delaying a return to democracy following a coup last year. The junta-picked drafters had hoped the proposed charter would move
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
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 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'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
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'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
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
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
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