Misc Asia

Taipei, October 21, 2018 - Eighteen people died and 175 were injured when a train derailed in northeastern Taiwan on Sunday, authorities said, in...

Tokyo, October 20, 2018 - A Japanese maker of earthquake shock absorbers said on Friday that at least 70 buildings across the country may...

Palu, Oct 4 — Many children have been separated from their families and are “in shock and traumatized” following Indonesia’s devastating quake-tsunami, aid workers...

Washington DC, Oct 4 — Millions of American cell phones buzzed and beeped yesterday during the first test of a presidential alert system that...

Ottawa, Oct 3 — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi became the first person to be stripped of honorary Canadian citizenship yesterday over her...

Beijing, September 30, 2018 - A week after an official Chinese newspaper ran a four-page ad in a U.S. daily touting the mutual benefits...

Tokyo, September 30, 2018 - Danny Tamaki, the son of a U.S. Marine and Japanese mother, was elected governor of Japan’s Okinawa island on...

PALU, Indonesia, Sept 30, 2018 - The toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia soared on Sunday to 832 confirmed dead, with authorities...

New York, Sept 26, 2018 — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a longtime hardliner on North Korea, said yesterday he was willing to meet...

Manila, Sept 25, 2018 — A Philippine lawmaker fiercely critical of President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war was arrested Tuesday on previously dismissed charges, a...