Suu Kyi meets Xi Jinping as Rohingya censure grows

Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing growing international criticism over her country’s persecution of Rohingya Muslims, said Friday her government has made progress

Unlicensed micro-loans banned, borrowing costs capped to limit risks

Chinese authorities banned unlicensed lending and capped borrowing costs in its latest efforts to crack down on the country’s online micro-lenders as financial regulators zero in on

Top graft-buster may become vice president

China’s outgoing anti-corruption graft chief is expected to be named vice president next year, the South China Morning Post reported, giving him a perch to continue influencing

Hong Kong businessman denied bail in bribery case

A former Hong Kong government official was denied bail on Friday in a U.S. case accusing of him using bribes to secure business deals. Dr. Chi Ping Patrick

Indonesia | Remembering 1963 eruption, Bali’s elderly wary of another

Bali’s glowering Mount Agung has seemingly quieted since hurling huge columns of ash from its crater a week ago, but some villagers on the Indonesian island who

South Korea | 13 dead, 2 missing after boat capsizes

An official from the Korea Coast Guard said seven people were rescued and the two missing included the boat’s captain. He said 22 people were aboard

India | Strong cyclone kills at least 12

A strong cyclone over the southeast Arabian Sea triggered heavy rains and strong winds in southern India, damaging hundreds of huts, power lines and trees and killing at least

Analysis | Face-to-face with Rohingya, pope ditches diplomacy

Pope Francis has gotten into trouble before for ditching diplomatic protocol and calling a spade a spade, most famously when he labeled the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians a

Australia | Rush steps down from screen academy

Geoffrey Rush announced Saturday he’s stepping down as president of Australia’s screen industry academy, days after a theater company revealed it had received a complaint

Trump tweet raises questions about why he fired Flynn

President Donald Trump changed his story Saturday on why he fired Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, now suggesting he knew at the time that Flynn

Israel | Police question Israeli leader’s ally on corruption charges

Israeli police yesterday questioned a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges dating to his pre-parliament days as he was pushing for pro-Netanyahu legislation

Dutch autopsy shows dead war criminal had cyanide in system

A former Croatian general who died after swallowing a liquid at a war crimes hearing in the Netherlands had cyanide in his system, Dutch prosecutors said after an

Offbeat | Sphinx from 90-year-old movie set unearthed

Archaeologists working in sand dunes on the central California coast have dug up an intact plaster sphinx that was part of an Egyptian movie set built

This Day in History | 1976 – ‘Genius’ composer Benjamin Britten dies

Benjamin Britten, considered to be Britain’s leading composer, has died aged 63. He had been fighting ill health since a heart operation in 1973. Mr

Rugby | Macau Bats win 12 games in HK competition

Six teams from the Macau Bats Rugby Club set off for Hong Kong on November 26 for their latest round of competitive games. There, the teams exceeded expectations,

Bird, Rosenqvist win Hong Kong Formula E races

The FIA Formula E Championship sarted on Saturday with a gripping opening contest in Hong Kong. In the first of two races held during the weekend, Sam

World briefs

NORTH KOREAN leader Kim Jong Un thanked workers during a visit to a factory that built the tires for a huge vehicle used to transport a new intercontinental

The Buzz | Rugby: South Africa retain Dubai Sevens title

South Africa defended the Dubai Sevens rugby title by beating New Zealand 24-12 in the final on Saturday. New Zealand undermined its cause in the first minute when

Japan | Emperor Akihito to abdicate on April 30, 2019

Japan’s much admired Emperor Akihito is set to abdicate on April 30, 2019, at age 85 in the first such departure from the Chrysanthemum Throne in about

Rear Window | Authority report

To make good use of the accurate Monday morning quarterback predictions we would say it was an easy guess to foresee that Wong Sio Chak’s day in the

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