Asia-Pacific
Post-bomb Bangkok moves on, but with new sense of insecurity
One Bangkok resident says he can’t shake the horrid sight of what he saw, or the smell of death.
Taiwan swipe card with porn star image sells out in 4 hours
A special edition swipe card for Taiwan’s mass transit featuring the clothed image of a Japanese porn star sold out within hours overnight via a...
Flipper trainer-turned-activist arrested as annual dolphin hunt begins
Animal rights activist Ric O'Barry, who trained dolphins for the TV show Flipper, has been arrested near the town of Taiji as it kicked off its controversial...
China’s WWII military parade ‘a show of strength’
Soldiers will march, gleaming hardware will roll, and warplanes will fly above Tiananmen Square at China’s WWII anniversary parade, but major Western...
Police to keep $83,000 reward for catching Bangkok shrine bomber
Police officers investigating Thailand’s deadliest bombing are to share the $83,000 reward offered to catch the killer among themselves.
Journalist ‘confesses’ to causing China market chaos: state media
A financial journalist has “confessed” to causing “panic and disorder” on China’s stock market and inflicting “huge...
Streets remain awash with yellow as Malaysia protests enter second day
Thousands of people demanding the resignation of scandal-hit Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak returned to the streets for a second day of protests...
Bangkok bombing suspect is ‘Turkish national’, Thai military says
A man arrested in Bangkok in connection with a recent deadly blast at a religious shrine is a Turkish national who was found with multiple passports, a...
Royal Thai Police arrest suspect in connection with Bangkok bombing
Police in Bangkok say they have arrested one of the suspects in the bombing that killed 20 people earlier this month.
Round-the-clock pollution monitoring to ease fears in wake of deadly blast
A round-the-clock monitoring system for pollutants from the Tianjin explosions is being put in place to provide accurate and timely data to worried residents,...
China confirms public will be informed on pollution information from Tianjin blast
China’s Environment Ministry has put in place a 24-hour monitoring system for pollutants from explosions this month at a port and will report accurate...
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un hails accord with South as ‘landmark occasion’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called this week’s accord between the rival Koreas “a landmark occasion” paving the way for defused military...
China arrests city officials over warehouse explosion which killed 145
Prosecutors have detained 11 public officials over the Tianjin warehouse explosion which killed at least 145 people in China’s worst industrial disaster...
2 million tonnes of ivory destroyed as Thailand steps up fight against illegal trade
Wildlife officials in Thailand destroyed more than two tonnes of confiscated ivory worth about $3 million on Wednesday in what one rights group called...
Bangkok bomber suspect’s taxi driver questioned as hunt goes cold
A taxi driver has been questioned in connection with last week’s Bangkok bombing, amid suggestions he may have unwittingly escorted the main suspect...
Police deactivate large bomb found beside one of Bangkok’s busiest streets
Thai police have found a large bomb in Bangkok, a week after an explosion killed 20 people in the city.
Thai authorities claim progress in bombing investigation
New surveillance video has surfaced offering a possible clue to the bombing in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, Thai authorities said Saturday. Col.
Activists jailed for protesting against slavery lose court fight for freedom
Three anti-slavery activists who were arrested during a protest against bondage have lost their appeal against conviction in a West African court.
TV station apologises over re-enactment of Bangkok shrine bombing
A TV station has apologized after dressing a member of staff in a yellow TV shirt and re-enacting the Bangkok blast at the Erawan shrine. Executives...
North Korean troops warned to ‘prepare for battle’ with South Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday declared his frontline troops in a “quasi-state of war” and ordered them to prepare for battle a...
Tensions rise as North and South Korea exchange artillery fire
South Korea fired dozens of artillery rounds toward North Korea on Thursday after the North shelled across the border to protest against anti-Pyongyang...
‘Noisy loudspeaker’ row escalates into exchange of fire over Korean border
What do you do when your neighbor has the radio on too loud? Ask them politely to turn it down? Maybe bang on the wall? For North Korea it was an excuse...
‘At least 10 people’ involved in deadly bomb attack on Bangkok shrine
At least 10 people were involved in the Bangkok bomb attack that killed 20 people, Thailand’s police chief has said.
International terrorists ‘unlikely to be responsible for Thai bomb’
International terrorists were not suspected of a bomb attack in Bangkok this week that killed 20 people and China was not the target, Thai authorities...
Police hunt ‘foreigner’ in deadly bombing of Bangkok shrine
A police manhunt was underway Wednesday for an “unidentified foreign man” shown in a security video leaving a backpack at a popular Bangkok...
British backpacker murders confession was freely given, claims lawyer
One of the Burmese men accused of raping and killing British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller freely admitted his guilt to police officers,...
Thai police release sketch of suspected Bangkok bomber as hunt intensifies
Thai police have released a sketch of the suspect they are hunting over a bomb that killed 22 people in Bangkok. A huge manhunt is under way for the...
Thai police hunt for accomplices of suspected Bangkok bomber
Thai authorities have said they were looking for accomplices of the chief suspect for the Bangkok shrine bomb blast that killed 22 people, a man who was...
Chinese police arrest 15,000 for Internet crimes
Chinese police have arrested 15,000 people on suspicion of cybercrimes as the government tightens its control over the Internet, the Ministry of Public...
CCTV images show ‘bomber’ planting Bangkok’s deadly shrine device
Images have been released of a man Thai police have identified as the Bangkok shrine bomber.
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