Asia-Pacific
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Google announces $15B investment in AI hub meant to drive digital transformation
Google announced yesterday that it will invest $15 billion in India over the next five years to establish its first artificial intelligence hub in ... -
US and Malaysia work to expand Thai-Cambodia ceasefire in advance of ASEAN summit
Malaysia and the U.S. are facilitating efforts to secure an expanded ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia that they hope will be signed during ... -
Police officer killed in attack by gunmen on a polio vaccine team
Suspected militants shot and killed a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, the latest in a series of ... -
Ruling party turns 80 with foreign leaders in attendance
North Korea is celebrating today the 80th anniversary of the ruling party and different foreign dignitaries and leaders will be part of the commemoration. ... -
British and Indian prime ministers promote trade deal during visit by Starmer
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his British counterpart Keir Starmer yesterday in talks meant to deepen cooperation on trade, defense and technology while ... -
Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm
About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, ... -
Military strikes village in glider raid, killing 24 including children
Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, ... -
Australia, Papua sign defense treaty that raised China’s concern
The leaders of Australia and Papua New Guinea signed a major bilateral defense treaty yesterday that China believes targets it unfairly. Australian Prime Minister ... -
Police seize guns from owners who hold views rejecting government authority
Police in Western Australia have seized guns and revoked or suspended firearms permits from dozens of owners linked to what investigators describe as sovereign ... -
Rescuers run oxygen to survivors in school building collapse that buried dozens
Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked ... -
In a rare UN appearance, senior N.Korean diplomat insists his country won’t give up nukes
A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. yesterday [Macau time] that his country won’t give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous international ... -
Tropical storm rips through Vietnam and kills at least 12 people
Heavy rain and strong winds from the former Typhoon Bualoi flooded roads, knocked off roofs and caused at least 12 deaths in central Vietnam ... -
South says the North has 4 uranium enrichment facilities to build nuclear weapons
A top South Korean official said yesterday that North Korea is operating a total of four uranium enrichment facilities, adding to outside assessments that ... -
Authorities impose security restrictions in remote Ladakh after deadly clashes
Authorities in India enforced security restrictions in two main districts in the remote Ladakh region yesterday. The restrictions came a day after four people ... -
Court rejects an appeal by Australian who says she was tricked into smuggling drugs
A Japanese court yesterday dismissed an appeal by an Australian woman who said she was tricked into smuggling drugs by a man she hoped ... -
South Korean parliament votes to allow tattooists to work without a medical license
Tattoo artists in South Korea will no longer need to worry about being punished for doing their jobs, as the country’s parliament yesterday approved ... -
Singapore executes Malaysian drug trafficker in the city-state’s 11th execution of the year
A Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore yesterday for drug trafficking, raising the number of executions in the city-state to 11 this year despite ... -
Southern China cancels schools and flights as Super Typhoon Ragasa approaches
Southern Chinese cities scaled back many aspects of daily life today (Tuesday) with school and business closures and flight cancellations as the region braced ... -
Police arrest 17 for hurling rocks as thousands peacefully protest corruption
Philippine police arrested 17 people — many dressed in black and wearing face masks — who set fire to the tires of a barricade ... -
Earthquake causes scattered damage in Papua region
A magnitude-6.1 earthquake shook Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua early Friday, causing scattered damage in a coastal town. No casualties were immediately reported. At ... -
Indonesian court sentences Ukrainian man to life for producing illegal drugs
A Ukrainian man arrested in Thailand and extradited to Indonesia after seven months on the run was convicted yesterday of producing illegal drugs on ... -
Unification Church inked to an investigation into former first lady
The elderly leader of the international Unification Church became the latest high-profile figure in South Korea to face an investigation in connection with criminal ... -
Australia offers Papua New Guinea a Parliament House extension
Australia offered to gift Papua New Guinea an extension to its Parliament House as the South Pacific island nation celebrated 50 years of independence ... -
Marcos supports public outrage over corruption but says protests should be peaceful
The Philippine president yesterday encouraged the public to express their outrage over massive corruption that has plagued flood-control projects in one of Asia’s most ... -
Pakistan’s security forces kill 31 insurgents in overnight raids in northwest, military says
Pakistan’s security forces raided two separate militant hideouts in the country’s northwest, killing 31 insurgents, the military said yesterday. The overnight raids took place ... -
New prime minister urges calm after deadly protests
Nepal’s new prime minister took office yesterday and “urged calm and cooperation to rebuild” the Himalayan nation after days of violent protests last week ... -
Military chiefs reject call to defect from Marcos over flood control uproar
The Philippine defense and military chiefs rejected a call for the country’s armed forces to withdraw support from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in response ... -
Families in crisis after massive immigration raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia
Ever since a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai manufacturing site swept up nearly 500 workers in southeast Georgia, Rosie Harrison said her organization’s ... -
UN report says scam centers are spreading in East Timor
A suspected scam call operation and a suspicious network of companies was discovered with links to a new free trade zone in the nation ... -
Lee says Korean workers released from US facility before flight home
South Korea’s president said yesterday that Korean companies will likely hesitate to make further investments in the United States unless Washington improves its visa ... -
Japanese women struggle to find a place in the Japanese sumo world
Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its ... -
Behind deadly protests over social media ban lies anger over corruption
Nepal’s government responded to escalating violent protests over a ban on popular social media platforms with deadly force. The public outrage over the ban ... -
A father who evaded with his 3 children for years is shot dead by the police
A man who evaded authorities with his three children in the remote New Zealand countryside for nearly four years was shot and killed by ... -
Kim brings daughter to Beijing, fueling speculation she may be heir
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has brought his young daughter on his most significant foreign trip in years, a trip to China that ... -
Half a million people flee their homes in Punjab to escape flooding
Rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the ...
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