Misc Asia

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...

New York, Sept 27, 2018 — The widow of Nobel Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo yesterday made her first public appearance since leaving China more...

Washington DC, September 26, 2018 - The U.S. State Department has approved the sale to Taiwan of spare parts for F-16 fighter planes and...

Hanoi, September 21, 2018 - Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, a former chief of internal security who became one of the most high-profile leaders...

Washington DC, Sept 15, 2018 - The Trump administration will send a message to all U.S. cellphones on Thursday to test a previously unused...

Seoul, September 14, 2018 - Next week’s inter-Korean summit will test whether South Korean President Moon Jae-in can pull off his role of mediator...

Hanoi, August 27, 2018 - U.S. Senator John McCain was a “symbol of his generation” who helped “heal the wounds of war” by pushing...

Washington DC, August 24, 2018 -- U.S. Senator John McCain, the maverick Republican who survived a Vietnam War prison camp and ran unsuccessfully for...