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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak rejected accusations he misappropriated funds as he faces his biggest crisis since coming to power in 2009. A task force is investigating a money trail that
A Singapore teenager who was found guilty of wounding religious feelings will walk free after being sentenced to jail time already served, the BBC reported yesterday. According to the UK-based news
Japanese officials yesterday celebrated the U.N. cultural body’s approval of world heritage status for 23 historic sites showing the country’s transformation from feudal isolation into an industrial power at the
The Singapore Botanical Gardens is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site after it was inscribed at the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee in Bonn, Germany, local TV Channel
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is facing the risk of criminal charges over allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled from an indebted state fund to his personal
Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong doesn’t hold an official government post, but it’s not surprising that he’ll meet with President Barack Obama on his visit to the United
Japan and five countries bordering the South China Sea pledged to uphold freedom of navigation and overflight amid rising tensions over China’s build-up of reefs in disputed waters. Japan and the
A fatal fire on Japan’s bullet train, started by a man who self-immolated last week, has revealed blind spots in a system renowned for its speed, punctuality and safety record. Riding
A decade ago, when an Indonesian passenger jet crashed into a quaint neighborhood in Indonesia’s third-biggest city, Medan, Waktu Tarigan thought he’d never witness anything like that again. He was
A ferry carrying 189 passengers and crew capsized yesterday minutes after it left a central Philippine port in choppy waters, leaving at least 35 dead and 20 others missing, coast
An Afghan court has overturned the death sentences for four men convicted of taking part in the shocking mob killing of a woman outside a Kabul shrine, a judge said
The aging Indonesian military transport plane that crashed into a residential neighborhood of Medan killing 141 people had a propeller “abnormality” that indicates an engine stalled, the air force chief
Asia’s fast-growing economies will increase demand for food in the next decade, especially meat and dairy, as incomes rise, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations
Indonesia’s air force said yesterday it will investigate if the transport plane that crashed into a city neighborhood, killing 141 people, was violating orders by carrying paying passengers. A local military
All he did was ask to go home. The last time the Burmese slave made the same request, he was beaten almost to death. But after being gone eight years and
An Indonesian air force transport plane carrying military personnel and their families plowed into a residential neighborhood in the country’s third- largest city of Medan shortly after takeoff yesterday, killing at
A man riding a Japanese high-speed bullet train set himself on fire yesterday, killing himself and another passenger as the coach filled with smoke, a fire official said. At least 26
A suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed vehicle targeted a NATO military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, yesterday, police and a NATO official said. Police on the scene said casualties were
Of countless ghostly abandoned factories and mines in Japan, this fortress island near Nagasaki is among the most notorious. It is also a source of national pride. Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island,
No new cases of MERS were reported in South Korea for two straight days, with no deaths being added, the health ministry said yesterday. The number of MERS cases totaled
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