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Pakistani police gunned down one of the country’s most-feared Sunni militant leaders and 13 followers in a mysterious pre-dawn shootout yesterday, killing a man believed to behind the slaughter of
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy will contest almost all the 498 parliamentary seats in the Nov. 8 polls, and expects heavy gains, according to party spokesman Nyan Win. He
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, stung by allegations that he received some USD700 million in government money, yesterday fired the attorney general who had been investigating him and a deputy
South Korea said yesterday it is now virtually free of the deadly MERS virus that killed 36 people and sickened nearly 200 since an outbreak was declared in May. Prime Minister
The North Korean ambassador to China said yesterday that his country has no interest in an Iran-style nuclear disarmament deal because North Korea is a “nuclear weapons state.” Ji Jae Ryong
Left-wing protesters clashed with riot police amid a downpour yesterday as they tried to breach a barricade of barbed wire and shipping containers ahead of the Philippine president’s final state
Indian forces fought a prolonged gunfight yesterday with militants who attacked a moving bus and stormed into a police station in a northern town bordering Pakistan, with at least nine
A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and eight wounded, an official said yesterday. Abdul Jabar Perdili, police chief of Baghlan province, said a
North Korean officials warned the United States that another war on the Korean Peninsula would leave no Americans alive to sign a surrender document as the country marked yesterday’s anniversary
An Australian nurse who says he was forced by Islamic State militants to work as a medic in Syria was arrested after returning home and faces terrorism-related charges of supporting the movement. Adam
Grammy award-winning singer Chris Brown says he’s confused about why he’s stuck in Manila, where his departure has been delayed by a fraud complaint over a canceled concert last New Year’s Eve. Immigration
Thailand will ban alcohol sales near universities and technical colleges, putting the nation at the forefront of efforts in Asia to curb consumption. Under amendments to the Alcohol Control Act endorsed
Singapore has frozen two bank accounts in connection with investigations into 1MDB, Malaysia’s troubled state fund, the Financial Times reported yesterday. According to an article by Jennifer Hughes in Hong Kong,
The Australian government said yesterday that a boat carrying dozens of Vietnamese asylum seekers intercepted close to the northwest coast could be sent back to Vietnam. Some fled Vietnam after their
An outside director of Mitsubishi Materials said yesterday that the company hopes to apologize to former British, Dutch and Australian World War II POWs, and also reach an amicable agreement
Eruptions of ash at five volcanoes shrouded the skies over parts of the Indonesian archipelago yesterday, forcing three airports to close. Mount Raung on Java island blasted ash and debris up
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest among a crowd of shoppers at a market in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 15 people, an official said. The powerful explosion
Japan emphasized China as a threat in escalating regional tensions in this year’s annual defense report as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government tries to convince the public of the need
North Korea said yesterday that it’s not interested in an Iran-type nuclear disarmament deal, saying it won’t abandon its atomic weapons as long as the United States maintains hostile policies toward the
A Myanmar court yesterday fined two editors of a weekly newspaper 1 million kyat (USD809) each after finding them guilty of violating the country’s media law by insulting the president. The
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