China issue sidelined in local votes that will shed light on the major parties’ fortunes ahead of the 2024 presidential electionVoters headed to the polls across Taiwan on Saturday in a closely watched local election that will determine the strength of…
Five-year-old boy pulled from Indonesia earthquake rubble after two days
Azka, whose mother died in disaster, probably survived due to being protected by a mattress, while 40 people remain missing in CianjurDriving rain and the danger of landslides disrupted the work of Indonesian rescue workers searching on Wednesday for s…
Cambodian wildlife official among eight charged in US with smuggling endangered monkeys
Prosecutor says official from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries was arrested en route to a conference on protecting endangered speciesEight people in the US have been charged with smuggling endangered monkeys, including a Cambodian wildli…
North Korea launches ballistic missile, threatens ‘fiercer’ military response
The latest missile test comes on the back of expanded military exercises between the US and South KoreaKorean tensions explained in 30 secondsNorth Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile Thursday toward its eastern waters, South Korea’s militar…
New Zealand ‘suitcase murders’: South Korean court approves suspect’s extradition
South Korea’s justice minister will make final call on extradition of woman to New Zealand to face murder charges over children’s bodies found in suitcasesA South Korean court has approved the extradition of a 42-year-old woman facing murder charges in…
Seoul crowd crush: local police offices raided in investigation
Eleven emergency callers used Korean word for ‘crushed to death’ 13 times hours before incidentSouth Korea’s national police agency on has raided local police departments in the capital, Seoul, and the city’s Yongsan district office as it investigates …
Afghan special forces being recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine
Russians want to attract thousands of former elite commandos who fear being returned to Taliban-controlled homeland from IranAfghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic US withdrawal last …
Tropical storm Nalgae: 98 dead in one of most destructive storms to hit Philippines this year
Dozens missing and feared dead in a mudslide-hit mountainside village, while more than a million people were swamped by floods in other provincesNearly 100 people have died in one of the most destructive storms to hit the Philippines this year, with do…
Pakistani journalist killed by police in Kenya ‘was case of mistaken identity’
Police say Arshad Sharif was shot after his car failed to halt at a roadblock near NairobiA senior Pakistani journalist living in hiding in Kenya was shot and killed by police after the car he was in sped up instead of stopping at a roadblock near Nai…
North Korea fires missile and flies warplanes near border, says Seoul
Latest in spate of ballistic missile launches further raises animosities between the two countriesNorth Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near the border with South Korea, the South’s military said, fur…
Taiwan opens borders to tourists as restrictions eased after 2.5 years
Entry rules to island lifted to allow unfettered access, while mainland China remains one of the few places keeping borders closedTaiwan lifted all its Covid-19 entry restrictions on Thursday, allowing tourists unfettered access the self-ruled island a…
Indonesia stadium disaster: six face criminal charges over deadly crush
Police and match organisers among those to be charged after 131 were killed in one of the worst sports disasters in historySix people, including police and match organisers, are facing criminal charges in Indonesia after a crowd crush at a football gam…
US skier Hilaree Nelson given Sherpa cremation after death in Himalayas
Friends and family fly in and Buddhist monks light pyre at funeral in Nepal of extreme skierA famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world’s tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at…
Five rescuers killed after Super Typhoon Noru hits the Philippines
Storm records sustained winds of 170km/h, causing flooding and power outages and forcing the evacuation of thousands of peopleFive rescuers have died in the Philippines after Super Typhoon Noru slammed into the north of the country, causing floods and …
Myanmar: seven children killed in junta strike on village school
Students were among 13 people killed in the deadliest attack on children since the military coup last yearGovernment helicopters have struck a school in north-central Myanmar, killing at least 13 people, including seven children, in what would be the d…