MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday defended police officers who killed a detained mayor on a list of top drug suspects even after another law enforcement agency concluded the death was an extrajudicial killing. The National Bureau of...
MEUREUDU, Indonesia - The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia Wednesday has nearly doubled to 97, the military said, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of scores of shattered buildings. The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake struck...
ISLAMABAD - A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with about 47 people on board crashed in the mountainous north of the country on Wednesday, police and the civil aviation authority said. PIA said a plane bound for the capital, Islamabad,...
MANILA/HONG KONG - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of Jack Lam, one of Asia's top casino kingpins, on charges of economic sabotage and bribery, according to the country's police chief. Philippine authorities said they have also shut...
SEOUL - Friends and associates of the woman at the heart of a corruption scandal engulfing South Korean President Park Geun-Hye told a hearing Wednesday her influence extended to everything from Park's wardrobe to senior appointments. The impeachment-threatened Park has...
BEIJING - China said on Wednesday the governor of the US state of Iowa, Terry Branstad, was an "old friend" after a report that he had accepted President-elect Donald Trump's offer to become the next US ambassador to China. Bloomberg,...
BEIJING - UN human rights experts have urged China immediately to investigate the fate of a prominent Chinese rights lawyer missing for over two weeks, the latest example of a growing crackdown on legal activism. Jiang Tianyong took on numerous...
NEW DELHI - Torrential rain and rough seas have stranded around 1,000 tourists on one of India's tropical islands off its east coast, officials said Wednesday. Officials from the local Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration said they have asked the...
MEUREUDU, Indonesia - At least 52 people were killed and scores injured when a strong earthquake struck western Indonesia Wednesday and flattened hundreds of homes and mosques, with officials warning the death toll would likely rise. The shallow 6.5-magnitude quake...
Be it household chores or helping the elderly and disabled to walk, Japan is known for its "practical technology". "How technology is used is not something which (should be) abstract, but which helps people in their day-to-day lives," visiting President...
