Asia-Pacific
S. Korea develops smartphone app to curb student suicide
South Korea has developed smartphone apps to help bring down its high student suicide rate by warning parents when their children might be at risk, the...
Bangladesh factory collapse kill 7, dozens still trapped
At least seven workers were killed and dozens more are feared trapped after the roof of a half-built cement factory collapsed in southern Bangladesh on...
100 trapped, at least 4 killed after roof collapse at Bangladesh cement factory
About 100 workers are feared trapped after cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh.
Australian teen terrorist ‘Jihadi Jake’ reported killed in IS suicide bomb attack
A Melbourne teenager who went to Iraq to join Islamic State has reportedly been killed carrying out a suicide bombing. An image from video apparently...
AirAsia ‘not giving up’ but hunt for bodies drawing to close
AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes said Thursday he was not giving up on finding more bodies from one of the airline’s jets that crashed in the Java Sea...
China convicted more than 700 for terrorism, separatism in 2014
China convicted and sentenced 712 people for terrorism, separatism and related crimes last year, the country’s top court said on Thursday, saying...
Four years on, Japan’s tsunami victims frozen in their tragedy
Japan on Wednesday commemorates the fourth anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away thousands of victims and sparked a nuclear crisis,...
Doubts over Chinese ban on prisoner organ harvesting
China has banned the harvesting of transplant organs from executed prisoners, a senior official said, but international medical practitioners warn inmates’...
Could a package found on an Australian beach hold clues in MH370 case?
A Malaysia Airlines moist towelette that washed up on a Western Australian beach four months after MH370 vanished is unlikely to be linked to the missing...
New Zealand police probe threat to poison baby formula
New Zealand authorities said Tuesday they had received a “criminal threat” to poison baby formula and were taking it seriously, warning parents...
Package found on Australian beach could hold clues in MH370 disappearance
Investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been sent an unwrapped towelette package found on the shores of a beach in Western...
Police hold ‘hikikomori’ after five OAPs stabbed to death in Japan
A man suspected of stabbing five people dead at a family home in rural Japan was being quizzed by police Monday, with reports saying he is a “hikikomori”...
Police hold ‘hikikomori’ after five elderly stabbed to death in Japan
A man suspected of stabbing five people dead at a family home in rural Japan was being quizzed by police Monday, with reports saying he is a “hikikomori”...
Last goodbye? Families visit Australian drug smugglers on execution Island
The families of two Australian drug smugglers facing imminent execution in Indonesia visited them Monday on the prison island where they will be put to...
Last goodbye? Families visit Bali 9 Australians on death row
The families of two Australian drug smugglers facing imminent execution in Indonesia visited them Monday on the prison island where they will be put to...
Mass arrests made in India following brutal lynching of rape suspect
Police in India charged 18 people on Sunday after a frenzied mob stormed a prison and lynched a man accused of rape in the country’s northeast on...
MH370’s underwater locator beacon had expired batteries
The first comprehensive report into the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Sunday revealed that one of the plane’s batteries — that of...
Two teenagers travelling to Middle East intercepted at Sydney airport
Two teenage brothers have been stopped at Sydney airport under suspicion of travelling to the Middle East to join extremist groups, the immigration minister,...
China: Search for MH370 will not stop, relatives fight for answers
China’s foreign minister said on Sunday the search for a Malaysian Airlines flight which vanished one year ago will not stop.
China: Search for MH370 will not stop, relatives fight for answers
China’s foreign minister said on Sunday the search for a Malaysian Airlines flight which vanished one year ago will not stop.
Festival of colours: India celebrates spring with Holi
Holi, India’s joyful and colorful celebration of the arrival of spring combined with several religious legends, has long ceased to be only a Hindu...
'Under the Dome' pollution video disappears from China's internet
A documentary about China’s catastrophic air pollution, which garnered hundreds of millions of views on Chinese websites within days of its release one...
Myanmar police crack down on student protesters for third day
Police cracked down on student protesters opposing Myanmar’s new education law Friday, roughly grabbing demonstrators and loading them onto trucks...
Indonesia rejects Australian offer of swapping prisoners to stop executions
Indonesian officials said Thursday they will reject an Australian offer to swap prisoners as part of a last-ditch attempt to save the lives of two Australian...
China lowers growth target, ups military budget to defy slowing economy
China’s Premier Li Keqiang unveiled a lower growth target, increased the defence budget and pledged tighter environmental controls as he opened parliament’s...
Australia makes 11th hour bid to save drug smugglers with prison swap
Australia has offered Indonesia a prison swap deal in an 11th hour bid to save the lives of two Australian drug smugglers who have been transferred to...
Image of Asia: Outside the Great Hall of the People
Thousands of delegates are in the Chinese capital this week to attend the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s...
U.S. billionaire says WWII Japanese ship found in Philippines
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he has found one of Japan’s biggest and most famous battleships on a Philippine seabed, some 70 years after...
As Delhi chokes, pressure grows for Indian climate action
According to a joint study by Boston-based Health Effects Institute and Delhi’s Energy Resources Institute, at least 3,000 people die prematurely...
Rapist in New Delhi gang-rape says victim shouldn’t have fought back
A film-maker behind a new documentary about a fatal gang-rape in India that caused global outrage says one of the men sentenced to death for the killing...
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