Asia-Pacific
Death toll from capsized China ship rises to 65, families demand answers
The death toll from a cruise ship that capsized on China’s Yangtze River has risen to 65, state television has reported, as grieving families broke...
Chinese rescuers cut sunken ship’s hull in search for survivors
Rescuers on Wednesday started cutting through the hull of a capsized Chinese cruise ship, state media said, in a desperate effort to find survivors among...
Video: Man confesses to murdering wife just after he had stabbed her
Video has been released in Australia showing police questioning a man just minutes after he stabbed his wife to death. Christopher Cullen was found...
26 dead, 14 rescued: Rescuers step up search for 416 missing on China ferry
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV says the bodies of 26 victims have been pulled from the wreckage of the ship and 14 people have survived, some of them by...
South Korea reports five more cases of MERS illness
South Korea confirmed five more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Wednesday, bringing to 30 the number of infected people since the outbreak...
China relatives hope for ‘miracle’ in race to find ship survivors
Relatives of more than 400 people missing after a cruise ship capsized on China’s Yangtze river were hoping for a “miracle” Wednesday,...
Over 400 still missing from capsised cruise ship in China
Hopes dimmed Wednesday for rescuing more than 400 people still trapped aboard a capsized river cruise ship that overturned in stormy weather about 36 hours...
Over 400 still missing from capsized cruise ship in China
Hopes dimmed Wednesday for rescuing more than 400 people still trapped aboard a capsized river cruise ship that overturned in stormy weather about 36 hours...
Taiwan candidate seeks to reassure US on China ties
Taiwan’s opposition presidential candidate will look to reassure U.S. officials this week that victory in the January 2016 election for her party,...
Rohingya huddled in Bangladesh camps fear plan to move them on
More than 20 years after the first wave of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar, fear is spreading through the sweltering camps of mud houses where they found...
Rescuers race against clock to find survivors of China ship
Chinese rescuers were working through the night in a desperate race to find survivors from a capsized cruise ship, with more than 400 people still missing...
‘Cries for help’ heard from passengers trapped on capsized Chinese ferry
Rescuers say they have heard cries for help coming from within the hull of a ship that capsized on China’s Yangtze River with 458 people on board. The...
Some still alive inside capsised ship on China’s Yangtze River
Some passengers are still alive inside the hull of a passenger ship carrying 458 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, that capsised on the Yangtze...
Indonesia rescues 65 ‘after Australian navy towed away’ asylum boat
Indonesian authorities have rescued 65 asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia after their boat ran aground on a reef, Indonesian police said on Tuesday.
Child abuse costs E Asia, Pacific $209 billion a year: U.N. report
Child abuse and neglect are costing countries in East Asia and the Pacific an estimated $209 billion a year, equivalent to 2 per cent of the region’s...
Chinese passenger ship with 458 aboard sinks in Yangtze river
A passenger ship carrying 458 people sank in the Hubei province section of China’s Yangtze River on Monday night, Xinhua news agency said, citing...
Developing: Boat with more than 400 people sinks in China’s Yangtze
passenger ship carrying more than 400 people sank on Monday night in China’s Yangtze River. The ship, named Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star,...
41 face death penalty after being charged over Bangladesh factory collapse
Murder charges have been filed against 41 people over the 2013 collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people. Those...
1.25 million cases of personal data leaked in Japan pension system hack
Japan’s pension system has been hacked with more than a million cases of personal data leaked.
Beijing stubs out smoking in indoors and in public spaces
The toughest anti-smoking legislation in China’s history came into effect on Monday in Beijing, with unprecedented fines and a hotline to report...
Pressure mounts as Australian opposition proposes gay marriage law
Australia’s opposition Labor party introduced a bill into parliament on Monday aimed at legalising same-sex marriage, stepping up pressure on Prime...
Holiday in socialist fairyland? North Korea woos tourists
If you’re still looking for somewhere exotic to go this summer and don’t mind a vacation that comes with a heavy dose of socialist propaganda...
Rain of little relief to south India; heat toll nears 2,200
Despite hopes that weekend thundershowers would help end a raging heat wave in southern India, the rain brought only limited relief as the death toll since...
Nepal schools re-open after devastating earthquakes
Thousands of schools in Nepal have reopened, over a month after the country was hit by two devastating earthquakes with the magnitude measuring as high...
Fears of MERS outbreak in S. Korea, Hong Kong
South Korea’s health minister apologised on Sunday for failing to halt an outbreak of the MERS virus, vowing “utmost efforts” to curb...
China capital to roll out tough anti-smoking laws, fines
Beijing will ban smoking in restaurants, offices and on public transport from Monday, part of unprecedented new curbs welcomed by anti-tobacco advocates,...
Impasse over China’s island-building shows no sign of easing
China vigorously defended its South China Sea land reclamation projects in the face of persistent criticism from U.S.
India reels under heatwave as death toll tops 2,000
India’s brutal weeks-long heatwave has killed more than 2,000 people, authorities said Saturday, as the government launched a mass education campaign...
Pakistan launches hunt for bus hijackers who killed at least 21
Pakistani security forces launched a major operation before dawn Saturday to hunt down gunmen who hijacked two buses and killed at least 21 passengers...
Pentagon chief criticises Beijing’s South China Sea moves
China’s land reclamation in the South China Sea is out of step with international rules, and turning underwater land into airfields won’t expand...
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