Asia-Pacific
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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 ... -
Kim’s talks with Xi ‘carry great significance,’ Chinese Foreign Ministry says
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of festivities commemorating the end of World War II, ... -
Powerful rain and floods devastate northern India as experts blame climate change
Relentless monsoon rains have unleashed some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades across northern India, killing at least 90 people and displacing ... -
A movie about the Kabuki theater is a surprise hit in soul-searching Japan
A three-hour film about the esoteric world of Kabuki is defying the odds at the Japanese box office, with tickets selling out at some ... -
Vietnam celebrates 80 years of independence with flags, boba tea and a military parade
Vietnam marked its National Day yesterday with its largest military parade in decades, as thousands packed the streets of the capital, Hanoi, after many ... -
Modi, Putin meet as India faces steep US tariff over Russian oil imports
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of a regional summit in China yesterday in a show ... -
Kim inspects new missile factory ahead of visit to China
North Korea said yesterday leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles ... -
At least three dead after mob sets fire to Indonesian regional parliament building
An angry mob set fire to a local parliament building in an Indonesian provincial capital, leaving at least three people dead and five others ... -
Kim will meet with Xi and Putin at Chinese military parade
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make his first visit to China in six years to attend a military parade next week, the ... -
Paraguay is fighting to preserve Guaraní, a language of roots and soul
When it came time to choose a wedding venue, Margarita Gayoso and her partner Christian Ojeda knew exactly where they wanted to go. Despite ... -
A royal pardon frees a Thai woman serving a 43-year prison term for defaming the monarchy
A woman in Thailand sentenced to a prison term of more than four decades on a charge of royal defamation was released yesterday by a royal ... -
South Korea’s president highlights friendly ties in Japan before key summit with Trump
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, in his first summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during the weekend, stressed the importance of setting ... -
Kim Jong Un supervises test of new antiair missiles
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of two types of new antiair missiles, state media said yesterday, displaying his expanding military ... -
Wellington will buy US helicopters in a $1.6b military aircraft spending package
New Zealand‘s government announced new military spending yesterday of 2.7 billion New Zealand dollars ($1.6 billion) to replace aging aircraft, including helicopters it plans ... -
Suspended PM testifies over phone call that could get her booted from job
Thailand’s suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra testified in a Bangkok court yesterday on her alleged breach of an ethics law in her handling of ...
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