Japan | Gov’t confirms deaths of 3 nationals in Tunisia attack

Three Japanese were killed, and three others injured, in the militant attack on tourists in Tunisia, the Japanese government said yesterday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said an earlier report of

Michelle Obama talks girls rights, invites Abe to luncH

“Like so many women I was able to achieve both my professional and personal goals because of my education,” Mrs. Obama said after Abe announced plans for Japan to support the “Let

Offbeat | Philippines imposes ‘weed bond’ on One Direction

The Philippine Bureau of Immigration is requiring two members of the English-Irish band One Direction to post bonds worth nearly USD5,000 each, to be forfeited if they are caught using

Australia | Canberra and Vietnam agree to closer defense ties, S China Sea stability

Vietnam and Australia agreed to closer security ties yesterday, including training Vietnamese troops in Australia as Canberra seeks to balance its relationship with its biggest trading partner China and relations with

Singapore | Gov’t says founding father Lee’s condition deteriorates

The condition of Singapore’s 91-year-old founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, has deteriorated further at the hospital where he’s been treated for about six weeks, the government said yesterday. Lee was admitted

Myanmar | ‘Midnight inspections’ show military still powerful

The knock at the door of her family’s home came without warning in the dead of night, just as it always did during Myanmar’s long era of military rule. Outside, a

Myanmar | Court jails New Zealand man for insulting Buddha 

A Myanmar court yesterday sentenced a New Zealand bar manager and his business associates to 2 1/2 years in prison for insulting Buddhism in an online advertisement that showed a psychedelic depiction

Philippines | 4 Filipino nurses in Libya safe, not kidnapped 

The Philippine government said yesterday that four Filipino nurses reported to have been kidnapped from a Libyan hospital by militants from an Islamic State group affiliate were actually taken to

Nepal | Gov’t boosts doctors, rescue efforts at Everest base camp 

Nepal is adding more medical staff at Mount Everest’s base camp and working to speed up rescue efforts, officials said yesterday, in steps to boost safety after 16 local guides were

Vanuatu | Cyclone flattens the landscape in outer islands 

Relief workers saw a flattened landscape and widespread destruction in Vanuatu’s outer islands yesterday after struggling for days to reach the areas of the South Pacific nation hardest hit by a

Singapore | Founding father Lee’s condition worsens

The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet this week for their first trilateral talks in three years, Seoul officials said yesterday. The annual talks, which began

The Buzz | Australian boxer dies 2 days after collapsing after fight

A 23-year-old boxer died yesterday two days after losing consciousness after losing a 10-round featherweight bout. Family spokesman James O’Shea confirmed Braydon Smith, who was in the final year of

Vanuatu | President: Cyclone devastation forcing nation to start anew 

Vanuatu’s president was rushing back to his country yesterday in the wake of what he dubbed a “monster” cyclone whose damage was still unknown beyond the devastation in the South

Malaysia | Police arrest daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim

Malaysian police arrested the eldest daughter of jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for alleged sedition yesterday, a move slammed by critics as a clampdown on dissent. Nurul Izzah Anwar, a lawmaker

India | Police detain 8 people for gang rape of 72-year-old nun

Indian police have detained eight people in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 72-year-old nun in the eastern state of West Bengal in the early hours of Saturday,

Vanuatu | Country struggles to account for cyclone damage, deaths 

  Officials struggled yesterday to determine the scale of the devastation wrought by a monstrous cyclone that tore through the tiny South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, with death counts varying in the

Myanmar | Gov’t denies bombing inside China amid Beijing’s protest 

A senior Myanmar official yesterday denied Chinese accusations that one of his country’s warplanes crossed China’s border and dropped a bomb that killed four farmers during fighting with Myanmar rebels. The official, from

Pakistan | Suicide bombers kill 14 people outside churches 

Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers exploded themselves near two churches in the eastern city of Lahore yesterday as worshippers were gathered inside, killing 14 people, officials said, in the latest attack

India | Robbers gang rape nun in her 70s at school 

A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of bandits Saturday when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said, the

A look at examples of linguistic gap in 2 Koreas

Here are some examples: — South Koreans use the English loan word “juice” but North Koreans say “danmul,” or “sweet water.” — South Koreans watch a “musical” but North Koreans see a

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