A Criminal Court judge found 24-year-old Akkaradet Eiamsuwan guilty of violating Thailand’s lese majeste law, which punishes people who defame, insult or threaten the monarchy. The ruling said Akkaradet used an
Sri Lanka has confirmed that at least 10 people died and 28 are still missing from a mudslide last week at a tea plantation, as officials began using voting and
Thailand’s military-installed government appointed a committee yesterday to draft the country’s new constitution amid speculation that it will seek to bar former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies from politics. The
The law defines trafficking in persons, or TIP, and carries penalties including jail, fines and caning, according to Christopher De Souza, the member of parliament who proposed the legislation. It
Taiwan’s coast guard was conducting a second day of live-fire drills on an island in the disputed Spratly chain, prompting condemnation from Vietnam. The drills are conducted annually on Taiping Island,
The shooting of a Shiite religious leader outside a Sydney prayer hall appeared to have been influenced by the Islamic State movement, Australia’s prime minister said yesterday. Rasoul Al Mousawi, 47,
A suicide bombing at the busiest India-Pakistan border crossing after a nightly flag-lowering ceremony Sunday killed at least 53 people, according to the state-run Pakistan Television channel. The attack in Pakistan
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence given to a senior Islamist leader convicted by a special tribunal last year for his role in mass killings and other atrocities during
North Korea announced Thursday it will quarantine foreigners entering the country for 21 days over fears of the spread of the Ebola virus, even though no cases of the disease have been
There was no hope of finding survivors after a mudslide tore through a tea plantation, a Sri Lankan disaster official said yesterday, amid widely conflicting reports about how many people had been
A contentious new law that carries a prison term for anyone who reveals information about certain secret security operations was aimed at Edward Snowden-like leakers rather than investigative reporters, Australia’s attorney-general said
Emerging Asian nations are finding out what developed ones did years ago: money — and the stuff it buys — brings happiness. Levels of self-reported well-being in fast-growing nations like Indonesia,
The little apartment building was graceful once. Maybe even beautiful. There is an elegance in the arched windows now covered with grime. It’s in the ornamental pillars, coated with paint
A special tribunal in Bangladesh yesterday sentenced the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party to death for his role in the deaths of thousands of people during the nation’s independence war
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is seeking to erase the remaining influence of his dead uncle, executing about 10 senior Workers’ Party officials on charges from graft to watching
A mudslide triggered by monsoon rains buried scores of workers’ houses at a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka yesterday, killing at least 10 people and leaving more than 250 missing, an official
Malaysia’s top court yesterday began hearing a final appeal filed by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim against a sodomy conviction widely regarded as a means to neutralize the threat he poses to
The first body found in three months was being recovered yesterday from the sunken South Korean ferry, increasing the official death toll to 295, officials said. The government task force said
South Korea’s spy agency said yesterday it has solved the mystery of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s 6-week public absence, which set off a frenzy of wild speculation around
Indian women still face some of the world’s worst inequality in access to health care, education and work, despite years of rapid economic growth, according to a survey of 142
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