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On a rural road just after daybreak, villagers young and old kneel reverently before a single file of ochre-robed women, filling their bowls with rice, curries, fruits and sweets. In
Indonesian police investigating a Japanese woman’s murder said Friday they have arrested a security guard of her apartment building in the capital. Jakarta police chief Maj. Gen. Tito Karnavian told reporters
The haze, caused by farmers who burn forests to clear their land for agriculture, is an annual occurrence that sends smog wafting northward to Singapore and Malaysia. Those governments have
Raging floodwaters broke through a flood berm yesterday and swamped a city north of Tokyo, washing away houses, forcing dozens of people to rooftops to await helicopter rescues and leaving
When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional Indian way, asking relatives, neighbors and local temple priests to suggest a young woman. But
Australia will launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria within days and resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in the Middle East, Prime Minister
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
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