Asia Pacific
Thai junta leader appointed PM by hand-picked parliament
Thailand\'s coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was appointed prime minister on Thursday by a legislature he hand-picked, giving the army chief a ...Fisherman killed by crocodile in Australian river
A 57-year-old fisherman has been killed by a 4.5 meter (15-foot) crocodile in front of his wife while the couple fished in ...South Korea suggests Northeast Asia nuclear safety group
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday urged the creation of a nuclear safety consultative group in Northeast Asia, given the high ...Cambodia tribunal convicts Khmer Rouge leaders
Three and a half decades after the genocidal rule of Cambodia\'s Khmer Rouge ended, a U.N.-backed tribunal on Thursday sentenced two top ...At least 367 dead after quake hits southwest China
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and leaving 1,881 injured in a remote area ...Factory blast in east China kills at least 65: state TV
A factory blast in China\'s eastern industrial province of Jiangsu has killed at least 65 people and injured more than 100 others, ...Taiwan gas blast kills 15, injures 243: local media
An explosion caused by a gas leak in the southern Taiwanese city Kaohsiung has killed 15 people and injured another 243, Taiwanese ...Bodies, black boxes handed over from Ukraine crash site
The remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine were making their way to ...International monitors work to secure Malaysia Airlines wreckage site
International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses that fell from a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held ...More than 100 AIDS researchers killed on Malaysian jet
Scores of leading AIDS research experts were among those killed when a Malaysian passenger jet crashed in Ukraine after being allegedly shot ...




