Sailors deployed to secure travel during the Eid al-Fitr holiday made Indonesia’s biggest cocaine seizure after finding plastic packages of the drugs floating at sea, the
Australia's defense policy debate heated up when the defense minister said there was evidence that the Chinese Communist Party wanted Australia’s government to change at the May
North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters yesterday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed
Sri Lanka’s economy is in dire straits with its usable foreign reserves down to less than $50 million, the country’s finance minister said yesterday. Ali
Shares were mostly lower in Asia yesterday, with markets in China, Japan and some other markets still closed for holidays. Hong Kong and Seoul fell more than
An Australian man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison yesterday for the 1988 murder of an American who fell off a Sydney cliff
Muslims across India marked Eid al-Fitr yesterday by offering prayers outside mosques, even as the celebrations this year came in the backdrop of a series
An outspoken critic of Cambodia’s government dressed up as “Lady Justice,” complete with scale and blindfold, to bring attention to her case as lawyers in her trial for treason
Australia’s central bank yesterday lifted its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than 11 years. The cash rate rose from 0.1% to 0.35% in a
Singapore yesterday executed a Malaysian man convicted of drug smuggling after a court dismissed a last-minute challenge from his mother and international pleas to spare him
Tokyo’s Shibuya is famed for its Scramble Crossing, where crowds of people crisscross the intersection in a scene symbolizing urban Japan’s congestion and anonymity. It may have added
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to accelerate the development of nuclear weapons and threatened to use them if provoked in a speech he
Large crowds gathered in Australia yesterday to pay tribute to their war dead on Anzac Day largely free of pandemic restrictions for the first time since
Cambodia yesterday reduced the required quarantine period from two weeks to one for arriving travelers who are not fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, acting after recording consistently low
East Timor’s former independence fighter and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta is set to win the presidential runoff election, according to over 60% of the votes
The Solomon Islands prime minister confirmed yesterday that his government has signed a new security agreement with China, but told lawmakers it would not “undermine the
Voters in East Timor chose a president in a runoff yesterday between former independence fighters who’ve blamed each other for years of political paralysis. Nobel Peace
Singapore and New Zealand will cooperate on green technologies in the fight against climate change, prime ministers from both countries said yesterday. The joint efforts will
Australia's prime minister yesterday warned that thousands of asylum seekers will attempt to reach the country by boat if the opposition party wins elections on May
Sri Lanka’s president appointed 17 new Cabinet ministers yesterday as he and his powerful family seek to resolve a political crisis resulting from the country’s dire
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