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
New Zealand’s top court yesterday ruled a man can be extradited to China to face a murder charge — a landmark judgment that goes against the trend
Australia's Minister for International Development and the Pacific Zed Seselja has flown to the Solomon Islands in a bid to prevent a “possible Chinese military presence”
Sri Lanka is suspending its repayment of foreign debt, including bonds and government-to-government borrowings, pending the completion of a loan restructuring program with the International Monetary Fund
Heavy rains caused by a summer tropical depression killed at least 43 people, with 28 others missing in the central and southern Philippines, mostly due to
The Australian state of Victoria has been confirmed as the host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games. It will be the first-ever predominantly regional Commonwealth Games
Basheer was a young Taliban fighter barely out of his teens when the Islamic State group took over his village in eastern Afghanistan, nearly eight years ago.
Seeking to put a positive spin on a relationship that never quite produced the hoped-for benefits, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
North Korea is demolishing a South Korean-owned hotel at a North Korean resort that was one of the last symbols of inter-Korean engagement, according to Seoul
Malaysian authorities rescued a Norwegian dive instructor and were searching yesterday for three other Europeans, including two teenagers, who disappeared while diving off a southern island.
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