Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Malaysia is seeking $3 million from the U.N. Green Climate Fund (GCF) to develop…

BANGKOK (AP) — Two members of the international humanitarian group Save the Children were missing Saturday after Myanmar government troops…

BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday defended its international scientific exchange programs in the wake of the conviction of a…

SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (Reuters) – The rapid intensification that turned this week’s Typhoon Rai into the strongest storm to hit…

MANILA, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Philippine officials and residents of areas that bore the brunt of Typhoon Rai pleaded for…

NIIGATA, Japan (AP) — Eiko Kawasaki stood at the port of Niigata, the place from which she left for North…

HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-Beijing candidates dominated Hong Kong’s legislative elections, beating out moderates and independents in the city’s first…

HONG KONG, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Hong Kong voters went to the polls on Sunday for the first time since…

SEOUL, Dec 15 (Reuters) – North Korea has changed the way it carries out capital punishment in response to greater…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The young woman in Myanmar decided to speak out when she realized that money from the…