Hong Kong - Beijing has warned new Hong Kong lawmakers not to back independence for the semi-autonomous city after young anti-China activists won seats for the first time in key weekend elections. Sunday's vote saw activists pushing for more autonomy...
Vientiane - Myanmar's newly installed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi will visit the United States next week, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday. Plans for a visit had previously been announced in July but no date had been given...
Jakarta - US chain Pizza Hut's Indonesian operation insisted its restaurants were safe Tuesday after it was accused of using ingredients up to six months past their expiry date. The allegations about Pizza Hut and Pizza Hut Delivery in the...
TOKYO - In pictures and video released by the Imperial Household Agency, Japan's Prince Hisahito laughs along his sisters, Princess Kako and Princess Mako, and digs up soil in a rice field at the Akasaka Detached Palace in Tokyo. The...
VIENTIANE - The United States will intensify efforts to help Laos rid itself of unexploded bombs, the White House said Tuesday during a historic visit by Barack Obama to a nation once carpet-bombed by Washington. Laos became the world's most-bombed...
SEOUL - Kim Jong-Un labelled North Korea's latest missile tests "perfect", state media said Tuesday, as he called for the isolated state to build up its nuclear arsenal.Hours before the UN Security Council was set to meet to discuss...
BEIJING - China is lauding its successful hosting of the G20 summit in scenic Hangzhou, with open confrontation largely avoided and broad consensus reached over the fragile state of the global economy and the need for a wide range...
SITTWE, Myanmar - Hundreds in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against an advisory commission led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan to find solutions to the conflict between the country's Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, which has cast a pall...
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BANGKOK - A motorcycle bomb killed a father and daughter in front of a Thai elementary school as parents were dropping off their children on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the troubled south.The...
Brazilian President goes shopping in HangzhouBrazilian President Michel Temer, who's participating in the G20 gathering in Hanzghou, was spotted trying on new shoes at a shopping mall in the downtown area on Saturday afternoon.The newly installed president took some...
