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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,
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
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
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’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’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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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,
In a country with zero kindergartens specifically for the deaf, Robert Grund wants to help establish the first — just a small suite of rooms for perhaps a couple dozen
Ten months after two British tourists were killed on a resort island in Thailand, prosecutors called their first witnesses yesterday in a case marked by claims that the accused —
Myanmar’s parliament is “playing with fire” by passing a bill regulating the right of women from the country’s Buddhist majority to marry men from outside their religion, an international human rights
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