Asia-Pacific
Hong Kong left deeply polarised by protests: Analysts
A pro-democracy occupation that paralysed Hong Kong for two months has left the city deeply divided both politically and socially, analysts said.
Will lame opposition hand Japan’s Abe gift-wrapped polls victory?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party looks set for a huge win on Sunday in an election that will allow the conservative leader to claim a fresh mandate...
Hong Kong police to clear last Occupy protest site Monday
Hong Kong police said Saturday they will clear out the last pro-democracy protest site next week, days after the main camp was dismantled with over 200...
Thailand’s Crown Prince divorces wife over in-laws’ corruption charges
Thailand’s Crown Prince has divorced his wife in a dramatic fall from grace for a senior princess at a time of heightened anxiety over the health...
Indian police arrest influential ‘jihadi tweeter’ Shami Witness
Indian police on Saturday arrested Mehdi Masroor Biswas, a 24-year-old executive believed to be the handler of an influential Twitter account supporting...
China’s Xi says Nanjing Massacre undeniable on 77th anniversary
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday no one can deny the Nanjing Massacre, as China for the first time held a national day of remembrance for the...
Indonesian landslide claims at least 17 lives as rescuers search for 91 missing
A landslide destroyed a remote village in Indonesia, killing at least 17 people, an official said on Saturday, as rescuers used their bare hands to search...
Wife of Thailand’s Crown Prince ‘relinquishes’ royal status
The wife of Thailand’s Crown Prince has relinquished her royal title, the kingdom’s palace said Saturday, the first official confirmation of...
HK media magnate Jimmy Lai quits after democracy protest arrest
Hong Kong publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the Apple Daily after being arrested for...
Catholic Church in Australia links celibacy to abuse
The Catholic Church in Australia on Friday conceded that obligatory celibacy may have contributed to priests abusing children and said clergy should be...
'We'll be back': Hong Kong protesters vow to continue movement
Hong Kong police arrested pro-democracy activists and cleared most of the main protest site on Thursday, marking an end to more than two months of street...
China sentences state-owned firm chief to death for graft
In a rare instance of an official being condemned to die, China has sentenced the head of a state-owned company to death for corruption involving nearly...
Hong Kong protestors cleared away after being given 30-minute warning
Hong Kong police have moved in on the main pro-democracy protest camp and started clearing tents.
In modernising India, suicide is on the rise among youth
India has the world’s highest suicide rate among 15 to 29 year olds, ahead of next-placed North Korea, according to a September report by the World...
Australia bows to pressure, pledges $165 m to UN climate fund
Australia on Wednesday pledged $165 million to the UN-backed Green Climate Fund to mitigate the impact of global warming on poor countries, bowing to international...
Hong Kong demonstrators given Thursday deadline to clear protest sites
Hong Kong’s High Court has ordered the main protest sites that have choked the financial city for more than two months to be cleared, building up...
New Delhi bans Uber after driver accused of raping passenger
The New Delhi city government has banned Uber after one of its cab drivers was accused of raping a 25-year-old female passenger.
UN: Opium harvests in Southeast Asia tripled since 2006
Opium poppy cultivation in the heroin-producing ‘Golden Triangle’ - the area adjoining Myanmar, Laos and Thailand - has nearly tripled since 2006.
Typhoon Hagupit kills 21 on Samar Island; weakens over Philippines
At least 21 people were reported dead, many of them drowned as flood waters rose in Borongan, the main town in Eastern Samar, where typhoon Hagupit made...
U.S. hands over senior Taliban commander to Pakistan
The U.S. military in Afghanistan has handed over three Pakistani detainees to Islamabad, including one whom Pakistani intelligence officers said is a senior...
Typhoon-hammered Philippines in ‘fight for our survival’
As powerful Typhoon Hagupit hammered the Philippines this weekend — the second year in a row the country has been battered by a major storm during the...
Indian police arrest Uber driver accused of raping passenger
Indian police on Sunday arrested a driver from the international taxi-booking service Uber for allegedly raping a young woman in the capital.
India police on manhunt for Uber driver who allegedly raped customer
An Uber taxi driver allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman in the Indian capital before threatening to kill her if she alerted police, the company and local...
No major damage in Philippines as Typhoon Hagupit weakens
Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power in entire coastal provinces, mowed down trees and sent more than 650,000 people into shelters before it weakened Sunday,...
North Korea denies Sony attack, but praises ‘righteous deed’
North Korea has denied orchestrating a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures in retaliation for an upcoming Hollywood movie that depicts an assassination plot...
Typhoon Hagupit tears down homes in Philippines as millions flee
Typhoon Hagupit tore apart homes and sent waves crashing through coastal communities across the eastern Philippines on Sunday, creating more misery for...
Hong Kong teen protest leader ends hunger strike
Joshua Wong, the teenage face of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, said Saturday he has ended a four-day hunger strike designed to force the government...
Pakistan military: FBI’s most-wanted Al Qaeda operations chief killed
Al Qaeda’s chief of global operations has been killed during a raid in the Southern Waziristan, Pakistan’s military says.
Half a million people evacuated from path of Typhoon in Philippines
More than half a million people in the Philippines have fled from a powerful typhoon in one of the world’s biggest peacetime evacuations as the storm...
Cyanide found in soil of ‘Black Widow’s’ plants as police investigate murders
Japanese police investigating a so-called Black Widow” and the deaths of her six partners say they have found traces of cyanide in soil from her...
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