Asia Pacific
Anti-Beijing protests flare as tensions rise between Vietnam and China
Anti-China mobs torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam as anger over the recent deployment by ...Sea dispute dominates ASEAN summit in Myanmar
Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have expressed concern over escalating tensions in the South China Sea, ...Bangkok braces for renewed protests after court sacks premier
Thailand\'s pro-government Red Shirts began massing in Bangkok on Saturday to challenge a bid by opposition protesters to install an unelected regime ...South Korea confirms three drones were from North Korea
A joint South Korea-U.S. investigative team looking into the three unmanned aerial vehicles that were discovered in South Korea over a two-week ...China urges Philippines to release detained fishermen
The authorities in the Philippines have detained the crew of a Chinese fishing vessel in a disputed area of the South China ...Thai prime minister ousted, found guilty of abuse of power
Thailand\'s prime minister was forced to resign Wednesday after the Constitutional Court found her guilty in an abuse of power case, pushing ...OECD cuts global growth forecast for 2014
The OECD cut its global growth expectations from its November outlook from 3.6 percent to 3.4 percent for 2014, although it kept ...Embattled Thai PM testifies in abuse of power case
Thailand\'s besieged Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday denied an abuse of power allegation at the nation\'s Constitutional Court in a legal ...South Korea diver dies in sunken ferry searches
A diver died after participating in the search for missing people from last month\'s ferry disaster in South Korea, officials said, the ...WHO declares polio global health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday declared the international spread of wild polio virus in 2014 a public health crisis and ...