Myanmar says aid access not blocked but security an issue
Myanmar insisted on Friday it was not barring aid workers from Rakhine State, where a counter-insurgency campaign has sparked an exodus of Muslim Rohingya refugees, but...
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Blaze kills 23 at Islamic school in Malaysian capital
A blaze at an Islamic boarding school in the Malaysian capital killed at least 23 people on Thursday, most of them teenage boys who cried...
China’s economy losing steam as investment growth stalls
China posted a rare flurry of disappointing data on Thursday — including its slowest growth in investment in nearly 18 years — suggesting the world’s...
China endorses, U.N. condemns fleeing of Muslim Rohingya as ‘ethnic cleansing’
China endorses Myanmar’s offensive against Rohingya Muslim insurgents, Myanmar state media said on Thursday, as the U.N. secretary-general described the operation, forcing nearly 400,000 people...
N.Korea threatens to “sink” Japan, reduce U.S. to “ashes and darkness”
A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to “sink” Japan and reduce the United States to “ashes and darkness” for...
Singapore names first woman president
Singapore named a former speaker of parliament as the multicultural city-state’s first woman president on Wednesday while critics expressed dismay that other candidates were disqualified...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to skip UN assembly to deal with Rohingya crisis
Myanmar‘s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing outrage over violence that has forced about 400,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, will not attend...
UN Security Council steps up sanctions on defiant North Korea
The UN Security Council unanimously voted to step up sanctions on North Korea, with its profitable textile exports now banned and fuel supplies capped, prompting...
Myanmar faces mounting pressure over Rohingya refugee exodus
Pressure mounted on Myanmar on Tuesday to end violence that has sent some 370,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, with the United States calling for...
Major U.S. allies in Asia welcome new U.N. Security Council sanctions on N.Korea
The United Nations Security Council unanimously stepped up sanctions against North Korea on Monday over the country’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test conducted on...
UN sees ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’ in Myanmar
The United Nations’ top human rights official on Monday slammed Myanmar for conducting a “cruel military operation” against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, branding it...
North Korea warns US over sanctions push ahead of UN vote
North Korea warned the United States on Monday that it would pay a “due price” for spearheading efforts for fresh sanctions on the regime following...
Kim Jong Un fetes nuclear scientists, holds celebration bash
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a massive celebration to congratulate his nuclear scientists and technicians who steered the country’s sixth and largest nuclear...
Red Cross fills UN void in Myanmar’s violence-torn region
The Red Cross organisations are scaling up operations in Myanmar’s violence-riven north-west, after the United Nations had to suspend activities there following government suggestions that...
South Korea braces for possible new missile test to mark North’s founding day
South Korea braced for a possible further missile test by North Korea as it marked its founding anniversary on Saturday, just days after its sixth...
Exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh tops quarter of a million
An unprecedented surge of 270,000 Rohingya has sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, as it...
Most South Koreans don’t expect war with North, poll shows
Most South Koreans doubt that North Korea will start a war, a survey showed on Friday, just days after the North’s largest nuclear test, as...
Exiled Chinese tycoon Guo seeking asylum in US
Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire who has accused some of the most senior officials of China’s Communist Party of corruption, has applied for political asylum in...
Myanmar laying landmines near Bangladesh border
Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that the purpose may have...
US: N.Korea leader begging for war; UN mulls sanctions (Update)
The United States on Monday said countries trading with North Korea were aiding its “dangerous nuclear intentions” as the United Nations Security Council mulled tough new sanctions...
