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Macau,
In 2010, three decades after we survived a harrowing boat escape from the communist regime in Vietnam, I broke the news to my father: I would be moving back there
Cambodian lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a vote to remake the country's electoral body yesterday, part of a political deal to help ensure fairness in the next national vote in 2018. Opposition leader
North Korea has deported an American woman who frequently visited the country over the past 20 years, accusing her of engaging in "plot-breeding and propaganda." North Korea's state media said Wednesday
The emperor of Japan visited a remote Pacific island yesterday to pray for thousands of Japanese and American soldiers who died during the World War II battle of Peleliu. Emperor Akihito
A statue honoring Filipino revolutionary Apolinario Mabini will be unveiled later this year with the opening of a planned playground in a Guam village. The statue was supposed to be unveiled
The Australian government yesterday approved the sale of one of the nation’s largest construction companies, John Holland Group Pty. Ltd., to state-owned giant China Communications Construction Company International Holding Ltd. Treasurer Joe Hockey
The first revision of the U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines in 17 years will “transform” the bilateral alliance, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said yesterday. The guidelines, expected to be formally approved in about three weeks,
Seventy years after the U.S. defeated Japan in World War II, Americans are divided over Japan playing a more active military role in Asia — and most Japanese are opposed. The
Nuclear-armed North Korea already has hundreds of ballistic missiles that can target its neighbors in Northeast Asia but will need foreign technology to upgrade its arsenal and pose a more
Family members of a Filipino maid facing the death penalty after being convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia made a last-minute appeal yesterday for clemency to the country’s president. The parents,
Life returned to normal in Nepal yesterday after an opposition alliance cut short a crippling general strike over an impasse about how to approve the Himalayan nation’s constitution. Schools and markets opened and
The Obama administration is opening a new phase of its strategic "rebalance" toward Asia and the Pacific by investing in high-end weapons such as a new long-range stealth bomber, refreshing
Officials in Thailand's violence-plagued south say four men who were killed during a recent raid by government security forces were not insurgents, and that the authorities involved should be prosecuted. Police
Malaysia revived detention without trial when lawmakers approved an anti-terror law yesterday that the government said was needed to fight Islamic militants, but critics assailed as a giant step backward
Armed men have abducted the mayor of a southern Philippine town from her house and fled with her on motorboats, officials said yesterday. Five armed men kidnapped Mayor Gemma Adana of
For Asia's aviation industry, the growing pains have just begun. A year of disasters, the dis-appearance of Flight 370 and financial turbulence highlight the challenges confronting the world's biggest air travel
With his government rolling out a new Air Quality Index to 10 of the nation's cities, Modi urged Indians to curtail waste and conserve resources even as they become wealthier,
An Indonesian court yesterday rejected appeals by two Australian drug traffickers who challenged President Joko Widodo's decision to refuse them clemency and spare their lives. The complaints by Myuran Sukumaran and
A Bangladeshi court yesterday turned down the last legal appeal by an Islamist party official convicted of collaborating in 1971 war crimes and upheld his death sentence. The decision by the
Seven members of an Asia-based organized crime syndicate have been arrested for exploiting more than 500 women mostly from China and Korea in a prostitution ring that spanned Canada, authorities
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