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SEOUL - North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations...
BANGKOK - The leaders of Thailand and Malaysia agreed on Friday to increase intelligence sharing on security and to move forward in possibly building a border wall to combat transnational terrorism and smuggling. People-trafficking and the smuggling of contraband, including...
BEIJING - Chinese state media on Friday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, with articles praising him, but President Xi Jinping visited a school and did not mention the day. Mao,...
Jakarta - Indonesian police said Friday they want a ban on gay dating apps in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country after a paedophile ring allegedly used popular service Grindr to pimp boys. It was the latest move by Indonesian...
PYONGYANG - North Korea has conducted a "successful" fifth nuclear test, state-run TV said Friday, in an explosion described by the South as Pyongyang's largest-ever such blast. "Our nuclear scientists staged a nuclear explosion test on a newly developed nuclear...
SEOUL - South Korea's presidential office said on Friday US President Barack Obama had indicated he would take every action under a mutual defence treaty with the South, including providing its nuclear umbrella, to protect Seoul from any North Korean...
Whether there is clear progress on managing the South China Sea disputes will be seen by the middle of next year, when China has committed to complete a framework for a legally binding code of conduct (COC) together with...
Construction workers have found 22 small gold plates estimated to date back to the eighth century, in Ringilarik village, Musuk district, Boyolali in Central Java. The workers were digging as part of activities of a water aquifer project when they...
SEOUL - South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Friday North Korea has conducted a nuclear test in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions and in a direct challenge to the international community. The North's fifth nuclear test proved...
BEVERLY HILLS - Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao issued staunch support for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday (Sept 8) after the Asian strongman clashed with United States leader Barack Obama over the country's bloody crime crackdown. Mr Duterte and Mr...
