North Korea | Pyongyang officially squelches speculation of Kim trip

North Korea announced yesterday that the head of its parliament will attend this month’s Victory Day celebration in Moscow, squelching speculation that supreme leader Kim Jong Un would use the

Human trafficking | Thailand arrests 4 following unearthing of mass jungle grave

Thai police arrested three local officials and a Myanmar national they alleged yesterday were involved in trafficking and holding Rohingya Muslims for ransom at a jungle camp where 26 bodies

Australia | Abbott says EU seeks advice on stopping migrants

Europeans grappling with mass migration from Libya were seeking information about Australia’s controversial success in stopping asylum seeker boats reaching its shores, the Australian prime minister said yesterday. Refugee advocates and human rights

Australia plans fines, jail for illegal home purchases

Australia will jail foreigners who purchase homes illegally as the government seeks to slow a surge in house prices, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. Sentences may stretch to three years and

Nepal | Authorities shut airport to big jets; more bodies found

Runway damage forced Nepalese authorities to close the main airport yesterday to large aircraft delivering aid to millions of people following the massive earthquake, but U.N. officials said the overall

Briefs | Thailand – Police dig up 26 bodies at suspected trafficking camp

Nepal | Rescuers pull out teenage survivor

A long-absent noise­ — cheers — rang out in Nepal’s capital yesterday as rescuers pulled a teenager alive from the earthquake rubble he had been trapped in for five days. The joy

Vietnam | War 40 years on, enemies now friends but still pain

This city once known as Saigon was blanketed in red banners yesterday that read “Long Live the Glorious Communist Party of Vietnam,” 40 years after northern forces seized control of the

Indonesia | Gov’t confirms 8 executed for drug smuggling

Indonesia brushed aside last-minute appeals and executed eight people convicted of drug smuggling yesterday, although a Philippine woman was granted a stay of execution. Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo confirmed at a news

Nepal | Quake toll tops 5,000 as aid reaches epicenter area

Aid reached a hilly district near the epicenter of Nepal’s earthquake for the first time yesterday, four days after the quake struck and as the death toll from the disaster passed the

Nepal earthquake | Helicopters ferry injured from villages near epicenter 

Helicopters crisscrossed the mountains above a remote district yesterday near the epicenter of the weekend earthquake in Nepal that killed more than 4,400 people, ferrying the injured to clinics and

Afghanistan | At least 52 dead in landslide in northeast

A massive landslide in a remote province in northeastern Afghanistan yesterday killed at least 52 people, a provincial official said. The stricken area in Badakhshan province is cut off from the

Indonesia | Coffins arrive at prison as foreigner executions near 

Ambulances carrying coffins arrived yesterday at a prison island and relatives paid final visits to their condemned loved ones in a sign that Indonesia will imminently execute eight foreigners and one Indonesian

South Korea | Captain of doomed ferry sentenced to life in prison 

The South Korean ferry captain responsible for last year’s disaster that killed more than 300 people, mostly schoolchildren, was given an increased sentence of life in prison yesterday by an

Nepal | Quake-aid need acute in Kathmandu, more so in villages 

Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers — Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on everything yesterday as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings

Modern tragedy: Quake-ravaged tower a site for selfies

Social media is a chronicle of life, and sometimes death. So it should be no surprise that a site of great human and cultural loss in Nepal’s devastating earthquake is

Malaysia | ASEAN to avoid confronting China in S. China Sea 

Malaysia’s leader said yesterday that Southeast Asian countries will avoid direct confrontation with China but push for a quick conclusion to a binding code of conduct to govern behavior in

Thailand | Authorities seize 3 tons of elephant tusks smuggled from Kenya

Thailand seized 3 tons of ivory hidden in tea leaf sacks from Kenya in the second-biggest bust in the country’s history, one week after the biggest seizure, customs officials said

Indonesia | Australia wants judges probed before death penalty

Australia wants corruption allegations against Indonesian judges investigated before their death sentences against two Australian drug traffickers are carried out, the foreign minister said Monday. The Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew

Nepal | More than 2,500 confirmed dead in earthquake

Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, the Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing yesterday, a day after a massive Himalayan earthquake killed more than 2,500

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