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CHINA Masked men attack a government office in western China, smashing vehicles and equipment and leaving 13 people injured in a regional dispute over farmland, local authorities and state media
INDONESIA Police say a commuter train slammed into a passenger minibus at a railroad crossing in Indonesia’s capital, killing at least 14 people and seriously injuring 10 others. AFGHANISTAN New Taliban
MALAYSIA Human Rights Watch has slammed a proposed new security law by Malaysia’s government that will give sweeping powers to a council led by the prime minister, warning it is
CHINA The addition of China’s yuan to the select basket of currencies used as a yardstick by the International Monetary Fund is a sign that the yuan may one day
CHINA A gas leak at a steel parts factory in eastern China kills 10 people and leaves seven others hospitalized. The Zouping County government says on its official microblog the
UK British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon told the Sunday Telegraph that “what happened in Paris and Brussels could easily happen in London.” Speaking in an interview, Fallon said the threat
CHINA-USA President Barack Obama’s pardoning of a turkey named “Abe” this Thanksgiving has led some Chinese to gloat at the Japanese prime minister’s expense. As part of a peculiar annual
S KOREA-USA A new nuclear treaty with the United States governing South Korea’s commercial nuclear activities during the next 20 years goes into effect. The treaty opens the possibility of
NEW ZEALAND A court hearing in New Zealand on whether to extradite Kim Dotcom and three others who helped run the website Megaupload to the United States ends after nine
JAPANESE media are reporting an explosion in a public restroom at Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, including those executed as war criminals. No one was injured. More
NEPAL Police in southern Nepal opened fire on ethnic protesters blocking the nation’s main highway, killing two in fresh violence that threatened to escalate political tensions. RUSSIA-UKRAINE Russia’s Energy Ministry says
CHINA cuts interest rates on loans by small lenders that finance the country’s entrepreneurs in a new move to shore up lackluster economic growth. Yesterday, the People’s Bank of China
VIETNAM’s prime minister says the Communist country will do its best to develop good relations with China, but at the same time will defend its sovereignty in the disputed South
INDONESIA Two Indonesian newlyweds have been arrested on accusations they plotted to kill a man the woman said had raped her a week before her marriage, and police said yesterday
CHINA The death toll from a landslide that buried homes in eastern China has risen to 25 people with 12 others still missing, a local government said yesterday. A torrent
CHINA Communist leaders allow China’s biggest corporate bond default yet in a fresh sign of wrenching economic change as growth slows and Beijing gives market forces a bigger role in
CHINA-N KOREA China’s ambassador to the United Nations is opposing further discussion of North Korea’s human rights situation by the U.N. Security Council, telling reporters that “the Security Council is not
AFGHANISTAN’s spy agency says it has freed eight people who were among a large group of ethnic minority Hazaras kidnapped earlier this year. THAILAND Police announce the arrest of a man
CHINA A Taiwanese pastor was detained for 15 days by Chinese police after visiting an unauthorized Christian church congregation in central China, the pastor of the Chinese church group said
INDIA Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy has joined the growing number of writers, filmmakers, scientists and historians voicing alarm over what they describe as a climate of religious intolerance and
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