Cilacap, Indonesia - Indonesia Thursday rejected appeals from the UN and EU to halt the execution of 14 drug convicts including foreigners, as speculation mounted they could face the firing squad in a matter of hours.The group, including foreigners...
Pakistan - Gunfire echoes through a dusty northwest tribal town, the soundtrack to Pakistan's biggest arms black market, where Kalashnikovs welded from scrap metal are cheaper than smartphones and sold on an industrial scale.Darra Adamkhel, a town surrounded by...
TOKYO - A Hawaiian Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Tokyo, its second such incident in Japan this month, an official said Thursday.Flight HA 442, which departed the northern Japanese city of Sapporo for Honolulu, made an emergency...
"Offensive scribbling" in English on a Chinese citizen's passport by Vietnamese border officials was shameless and cowardly, China's consulate general in Ho Chi Minh City said on Wednesday.It added that the incident had "stained the dignity of both China...
Colombo - A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday jailed and fined an Australian streaker for indecent exposure during a cricket Test between the nations, an act which local Buddhist priests found offensive.The man, identified as Alexander James from Queensland,...
Manila - The Philippines said Wednesday it had "vigorously" lobbied Southeast Asian nations to take a united stance critical of Beijing's claims to most of the South China Sea, but insisted that a diluted statement remained a victory.After initially...
Bangkok - A former prime minister whose party supported Thailand's last coup lambasted the junta's new constitution on Wednesday before a referendum on it, a rare blow to the army from within its own political camp.Abhisit Vejjajiva, who was...
New Delhi - Two Muslim women have been beaten up at a railway station in central India on suspicion of carrying beef, an offence in many parts of the Hindu-majority country, police said Wednesday.The meat the women were carrying...
TOKYO - A Japanese man who admitted to murdering 19 people at a centre for the mentally disabled grinned to news cameras Wednesday before being questioned over the country's worst killing spree in decades.The 26-year-old reportedly said he wanted...
JAKARTA - Indonesia's president on Wednesday appointed World Bank managing director Sri Mulyani Indrawati as the country's new finance minister, among a wider cabinet reshuffle aimed at increasing the effectiveness of his team.Former Indonesian army general Wiranto will replace...
