North Korea added to its recent barrage of weapons demonstrations by launching four ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday, as the United States sent two supersonic
Campaigning for Malaysia’s general elections started Saturday in a highly competitive race that will see the world’s longest-serving coalition seeking to regain its dominance four years
Australian police offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($633,000) reward yesterday for information on the whereabouts of an Indian national who is suspected of murdering a woman
“My heart is aching very much. We are among the world’s 10 largest economies, and I totally don’t understand how this can happen in our nation,” said Kim, 73, a retired environmental engineering researcher. “Our public insensitivity to safety is too severe.
Concerned relatives raced to hospitals in search of their loved ones yesterday as South Korea mourned the deaths of more than 150 people, mostly in their
Victims of a huge mudslide set off by a storm in a coastal Philippine village that had once been devastated by a killer tsunami mistakenly thought
Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are among those meeting in Australia this week to decide the future of Antarctica’s pristine waters. Conservationists say new marine protected areas and
The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar warned yesterday that the political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation is deepening and taking
For the first time in New Zealand’s history, a majority of lawmakers are women. Soraya Peke-Mason from the liberal Labour Party was sworn in to
A strong earthquake rocked a large swath of the northern Philippines, injuring at least 36 people and forcing the closure of an international airport and the evacuation
Australia's new government released plans yesterday for more spending on families, the elderly, defense and its Pacific neighbors as the country braces for an economic slowdown
The United States will make full use of its military capabilities, “including nuclear, conventional and missile defense,” to defend its allies Japan and South Korea, U.S.
A damaged Korean Air plane remained stuck in the grass at a central Philippine airport yesterday after it overshot a runway in rainy weather the night before.
Japanese gaming tycoon Kazuo Okada was arrested by police authorities at Ninoy Aquino International Airport earlier this week, months after his group launched a “violent” takeover of
Millions of saltwater fish like these are caught in Indonesia and other countries every year to fill ever more elaborate aquariums in living rooms, waiting rooms and restaurants around the world with vivid, otherworldly life.
The members of K-pop band BTS will serve their mandatory military duties under South Korean law, their management company said yesterday, effectively ending a debate on
A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on two more corruption charges yesterday, with two three-year sentences to be served
Japan’s space agency said a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff yesterday and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s
Malaysia's 97-year-old former leader Mahathir Mohamad announced yesterday he will defend his seat in the general elections expected next month, though he wouldn’t say whether he would
The government said the farm levy would be a world first, and that farmers should be able to recoup the cost by charging more for climate-friendly
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