Asia Pacific
South Korean troops shoot, kill man trying to cross to North Korea
A South Korean man who was shot dead while trying to swim across a border river had sought refugee protection in Japan ...Miss World organiser lashes out at government
The billionaire media mogul who brought Miss World to Indonesia lashed out at the government on Monday for bowing to Muslim hardline ...Philippines ceasefire collapses as fighting continues
Fighting intensified on Saturday in the southern Philippines between government troops and rogue Muslim separatists, shattering a ceasefire almost immediately as it ...Japan launches “Epsilon” rocket from Kagoshima
Japan\'s new solid-fuel rocket blasted off on Saturday carrying a telescope for remote observation of planets in a launch coordinated from a ...Twitter begins plans for Stock Market listing
Twitter has announced it has filed paperwork with US regulators ahead of a planned stock market flotation.China sentences 3 to death over Xinjiang unrest
China has sentenced three men to death over a June attack in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang blamed on Islamic extremists ...North Korea may be restarting plutonium reactor
North Korea may have restarted a nuclear reactor capable of producing enough plutonium to make one atomic bomb every year, a U.S. ...Fighting spreads as rebels besiege Philippine city
Philippine troops battled Muslim rebels on two fronts Thursday, after the insurgents attacked a second town near the southern port where they ...Japan hangs convicted murderer
Japan hanged a 73-year-old man on Thursday, bringing to six the number of inmates executed since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe ...North and South Korea agree to reopen joint Kaesong industrial park
North and South Korea agreed Wednesday to reopen their Kaesong joint industrial park next week, five months after it was shut during ...




