Amnesty Int’l says Myanmar army has laid landmines in Kayah

Myanmar's military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in Kayah, a conflict-affected region near the border with Thailand, Amnesty

Pakistan police arrest two men accused of gang raping US woman

Pakistan’s police have arrested at least two people after a 21-year-old American woman reported she was gang raped at a hotel when she was visiting a tourist resort

Sri Lanka prime minister, two rivals in presidential race

Sri Lanka’s prime minister and acting president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, will face two rivals in a parliamentary vote today on who will succeed the ousted leader who

East Timor hopes to join ASEAN when Indonesia chairs in 2023

East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta in a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart yesterday said he hoped Asia’s youngest country could join the Association of Southeast

Japan, South Korea foreign ministers meet to mend ties

The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan held talks in Tokyo yesterday in what both sides said was a renewed effort to improve bilateral relations. The countries’ ties

Researchers say pro-democracy activists hit by spyware

Cybersecurity researchers reported details yesterday of cases where Thai activists involved in the country’s pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked

Acting president declares emergency amid protests

Sri Lanka’s acting president yesterday declared a state of emergency giving him broad authority amid growing protests demanding his resignation two days before the country’s lawmakers

Malaysia seizes African tusks, pangolin scales worth USD18M

Malaysian authorities said yesterday they seized a container of African elephant tusks, pangolin scales and other animal skulls and bones estimated to be worth 80 million ringgit ($18 million).

G20 finance meetings in Bali overshadowed by war in Ukraine

Financial leaders of the Group of 20 richest and biggest economies agreed at meetings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali this week on the need to

Sri Lanka begins choosing leader to replace ex-president

Sri Lankan lawmakers met Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by the president who fled abroad

President flees amid crisis as ire turns toward PM

Sri Lanka’s president fled the country early yesterday, slipping away only hours before he promised to resign under pressure from protesters enraged by a devastating economic crisis.

Japanese say final goodbye to assassinated former leader Abe

Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday as a family funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination shocked the

China protests Taiwan paying respects at Abe’s memorial

China has filed a formal protest with Japan over the presence of the Taiwanese vice president at a memorial for assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China

Political chaos persists as crisis talks go on

A weekend of political chaos in Sri Lanka stretched into yesterday, with opposition leaders yet to agree on replacements for embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his prime

Abe’s party vows to finish his work after win in Japan vote

Days after his assassination, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party vowed to use its sizable victory in a parliamentary election to achieve his unfinished goals,

Japan votes in key election in shadow of Abe assassination

Japanese voted yesterday in the shadow of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that brought heightened security as party leaders avoided mingling with crowds

Opposition meets to install new gov’t amid turmoil

Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties met yesterday to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the

Facebook, Twitter remove Shinzo Abe assassination videos

Twitter, Facebook parent Meta and other social media companies scrambled police videos on their platforms of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that break rules on harmful

China lashes out at US, British intelligence services

The United States is “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development,” China said yesterday, continuing its sharp rhetoric in response to U.S. accusations of

Russia’s war in Ukraine to overshadow talks in Bali

Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for talks bound to be dominated

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