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Plans to build an 800-megawatt coal power plant near some of Thailand’s most popular beaches have sparked protests and a hunger strike by activists who say officials aren’t considering its
Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted eleven opposition activists of leading or participating in an insurrection and sentenced them to between 7 and 20 years in prison. They were
Knocked off his board by an attacking shark, three-time world champion Mick Fanning punched the creature before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South
Protesters clashed with police in southern Nepal yesterday as the government tried to collect the public’s suggestions on the draft of the country’s long-overdue constitution. Police reported dozens of injuries in
He was forced to toil in enemy mines as a prisoner of war, but James Murphy wasn’t angry or bitter. He was just happy to have lived long enough to
A NATO airstrike hit two Afghan military checkpoints yesterday in a restive province east of the capital, Kabul, killing seven Afghan troops in what an Afghan official describes as an
A South Korean government agent who was found dead in an apparent suicide left a note denying suspicion that the National Intelligence Service has been spying on South Koreans by
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was behind bars yesterday after being arrested in New Zealand, just days after he was sentenced to home detention for threatening to kill a man who used to
A Cambodian real estate magnate whose violent assault of a female TV star was captured on video was arrested Saturday, authorities said, in a case that has sparked national outrage. Sok
The annual State of the Climate report is out, and it’s ugly. Record heat, record sea levels, more hot days and fewer cool nights, surging cyclones, unprecedented pollution, and rapidly
The opposition walked out before the vote, and thousands of protesters took to the streets the previous night, but none of that stopped Japan’s lower house of parliament from approving a contentious
Eruptions at two volcanoes yesterday caused closures at three Indonesian airports, including one serving the country’s second-largest city. Mount Raung on the main island of Java blasted ash and debris up
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,
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 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
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
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