Asia-Pacific
Japan’s Kamikaze pilots say war horrors lost on young
Kamikaze pilot Yutaka Kanbe should have died nearly seven decades ago. It was only Tokyo’s surrender on August 15, 1945, that saved him from the...
Australia warns of poor outlook for Great Barrier Reef
Climate change remains the most serious threat to the Great Barrier Reef and the outlook for the natural wonder is “poor”, an Australian government...
Pope’s South Korea trips gives rare opportunity to reach out to China
On his way to South Korea, Pope Francis will get a rare opportunity to directly address China’s leadership as he flies over the country, whose communist...
'Wonder of the world': Chinese zoo unveils 'first' surviving panda triplets
A zoo in China has unveiled what are believed to be the first ever surviving panda triplets.
Thousands of South Koreans mark death anniversary of ‘messiah’
More than 20,000 followers of the Unification Church gathered in South Korea on Tuesday for the second anniversary of the death of their “messiah”...
Photo of child holding decapitated head brings grandfather to tears
The horrifying image of the Sydney-raised boy posing with the rotting head of a soldier has plunged his grandfather into despair.
WWII left explosive legacy in the Pacific, now being carefully cleared
The rusting hulks of tanks and field artillery are a common sight in the jungles of Peleliu, but the fighting that scarred the Pacific island during the...
Australian PM condemns ‘barbaric’ photo of child holding decapitated head
The photograph of an Australian terrorist’s son holding aloft the severed head of a Syrian soldier has outraged the country’s leader Tony Abbott,...
Gammy’s parents claim they were forced to leave Down syndrome son
The biological father accused of abandoning a baby because he was born with Down syndrome has said he would have terminated the surrogate pregnancy had...
China rebuffs U.S. efforts on South China Sea tensions
China appeared to rebuff pressure from the United States to rein in its assertive actions in the South China Sea on Sunday as Southeast Asian nations declined...
Japan cancels 200 flights as Tropical Storm Halong batters islands
Tropical Storm Halong has put a dampener on traditional Japanese holiday plans after more than 200 flights were cancelled and trains were delayed ahead...
One dead, over a million evacuated as Typhoon Halong slams into Japan
A weakened typhoon slammed into Japan early Sunday, leaving one person dead, more than 30 injured and prompting evacuation alerts for some 1.1 million...
Nagasaki mayor urges Japan to hold onto pacifist tradition on A-bomb day
The mayor of Nagasaki has criticised Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push toward Japan’s more assertive defense policy, as the city marked the...
'My body resembles a corpse': Rare diary details life under Khmer Rouge
Nearly 40 years ago, Cambodian school inspector Poch Younly kept a secret diary vividly recounting the horrors of life under the Khmer Rouge, the radical...
Nine surrogate babies found in Bangkok condominium
Thai authorities are investigating the discovery of nine surrogate babies in a Bangkok condominium who are believed to share the same Japanese biological...
Judgment day: Khmer Rouge heads get life for crimes against humanity
Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes tribunal has sentenced the last two surviving top Khmer Rouge leaders to life imprisonment on Thursday.
Son cooked his Hong Kong parents ‘like barbecued pork’ to hide murder
The son of a Chinese couple from Hong Kong allegedly killed and cut up his parents, and packed them into lunchboxes “like barbecued pork,”...
Chinese ships sail into Japanese waters after ‘threat’
Chinese ships have sailed into waters off Japanese-controlled islands amid fears of a military clash between the Asian powers.
Heave!: Commuters push train off trapped passenger
"People power" has saved a commuter after he became trapped between a train and a station platform.
China bans beards, veils from Xinjiang city’s buses in security bid
A Chinese city has banned people with head scarves, veils and long beards from boarding buses, as officials battle unrest with a policy that critics said...
Australia investigates ‘paedophile father’ in Thai baby scandal
Australian authorities are investigating the father at the centre of a Thai surrogate baby scandal, who has been exposed as a convicted paedophile, to...
Come see Hiroshima’s scars, mayor tells world leaders on 69th bombing anniversary
Japan marked the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday, as Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on U.S.
Japan unveils Russia, Crimea sanctions
Japan unveiled Tuesday details of financial sanctions against 40 individuals and two groups involved in the annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of...
Grim reality sets in for China quake survivors
Rescuers searched in the rubble of a quake-struck Chinese village Tuesday, with relatives facing the stark probability that only the remains of their loved...
Japan to launch military space force to monitor debris in ‘fourth battlefield’
Japan is planning to launch a military space force by 2019 that would initially be tasked with protecting satellites from dangerous debris orbiting the...
Death toll from 6.3-magnitude Chinese earthquake set to top 400
The death toll from a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit southwestern China on Sunday climbed to 398 people, state media reported on Monday.
Bangladesh ferry disaster: Two bodies recovered and more feared dead
A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people has capsized in a river in Bangladesh, officials said.
Death toll mounting as China suffers strongest earthquake in 14 years
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and leaving 1,881 injured in a remote area of Yunnan province,...
Death toll mounting as China records strongest earthquake in 14 years
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake in a remote area of China’s Yunnan province on Sunday killed at least 175 people, left more than 180 missing and injured...
37 civilians, 59 ‘terrorists’ killed in earlier China attack
Chinese state media said Sunday that 37 civilians and 59 “terrorists” had been killed in an attack earlier in the week in Xinjiang, home to...
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