South Korean president’s press secretary resigns
South Korea President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday accepted the resignation of her chief public affairs aide over the "disgraceful" ...
Japan to resume talks on N Korean abductions
Japan is gearing up to resume bilateral talks with North Korea in the hope of making progress on the ...
Japan votes to adopt child abduction treaty
Japan's parliament has voted to adopt an international treaty on child abductions, after decades of pressure from Western ...
Indian activist blasts Facebook sex boast
An Indian gay rights activist has called the attention of Mumbai police to an obscene post on Facebook by ...
Dynamite factory blast leaves 13 dead, 20 missing
Rescuers are still searching for 20 missing people after a blast that ripped through an explosives factory in eastern ...
Seven sentenced over monk’s death in Myanmar
Seven Muslim men were sentenced to jail on Tuesday for the murder of a Buddhist monk, whose death reportedly ...
Philippines protest Chinese ships off islands
The Philippines has lodged a protest with Beijing over the "illegal" presence of a Chinese warship off a disputed ...
North Korea releases Chinese boat and crew
North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, state media said, two weeks after the vessel was ...
Children’s Day
Giant carp banners are popping up all over town, blowing in the wind. What’s going on? It’s the fifth day of the fifth month, otherwise known as Children’s Day. Formerly meant for boys (after all, girls have their own day), [...]
Hiker found alive after Philippines volcano eruption
A Thai national earlier reported missing after Mt. Mayon erupted, spewing rocks and ash, has been found alive in the volcano's rugged terrain as rescuers struggle to bring the recovered ...
Up to 300,000 one-day-old babies die each year in India
Newborn deaths in India account for 29% of the world's first-day deaths, with more than 300,000 babies succumbing to infections and other preventable causes within 24 hours of being born ...
China bans forced mental hospital detentions
China enforced a new law prohibiting citizens from being admitted to mental institutions without their consent in an attempt to crackdown on "forced detentions" allegedly used by those in power ...
Japan’s Uniqlo announces its largest global store in Shanghai
Just months after a Honda police car was upturned for being Japanese and shops across China were boarded up for fear of attack, a Japanese fashion chain has announced a ...
Dynamite factory blast leaves 13 dead, 20 missing
Rescuers are still searching for 20 missing people after a blast that ripped through an explosives factory in eastern ...
Philippines protest Chinese ships off islands
The Philippines has lodged a protest with Beijing over the "illegal" presence of a Chinese warship off a disputed ...
North Korea releases Chinese boat and crew
North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, state media said, two weeks after the vessel was ...
Japan to resume talks on N Korean abductions
Japan is gearing up to resume bilateral talks with North Korea in the hope of making progress on the ...
Japan votes to adopt child abduction treaty
Japan's parliament has voted to adopt an international treaty on child abductions, after decades of pressure from Western ...
S.Korea slams “unhelpful” Japanese visit to N. Korea
South Korea on Thursday criticized the trip of a top Japanese aide to Pyongyang as "unhelpful" amid tensions with ...
China denies renewed US cyber-attack accusations
Beijing has rejected a new US report claiming the Chinese army had sponsored cyber-attacks for economic and military gain and said the accusations could harm cooperation against the increasing global ...
Russia, Japan shelve World War II animosity
Russia and Japan have finally agreed to lay their wartime animosity to rest, with bilateral peace talks almost half a century after World War II. In the first top-level summit between ...
Indonesia to outlaw “black magic”
Indonesia is set to ban sorcery or "black magic" to curb anti-witch killings. Under proposed revisions to the Dutch colonial-era criminal code, Indonesia would make it illegal for anyone to ...
28,000 rivers vanish from Chinese map
About 28,000 rivers have disappeared from China’s state maps, an absence, reports the Times of London, seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the natural cost of developmental ...
Seven sentenced over monk’s death in Myanmar
Seven Muslim men were sentenced to jail on Tuesday for the murder of a Buddhist monk, whose death reportedly ...
Philippines protest Chinese ships off islands
The Philippines has lodged a protest with Beijing over the "illegal" presence of a Chinese warship off a disputed ...
Factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh
A court in Bangladeshi has barred the owner of a garment factory where more than 100 workers died in ...
South Korea intelligence involved in Australian spy case
Australia claims it has uncovered a South Korean spy ring attempting to obtain trade secrets as the two nations ...
Australian man faces terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia
An Australian man detained for almost 18 months faces terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia, officials have confirmed Thursday. Shayden ...
Australian bank to invest in Chinese government bonds
The Australian central bank plans to invest about 5% of its foreign reserves in Chinese government bonds to help ...
