Asia Pacific
Typhoon Saola makes landfall in Guangdong after slamming Hong Kong, Macau
Typhoon Saola made landfall in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong early on Saturday as violent winds lashed nearby Shenzhen, Hong Kong ...Asia, Africa bear brunt of pollution health burden – research
Despite improvements in China, air pollution across the globe continues to pose the greatest external risk to human health, with countries in ...Kim Jong Un calls for boosting North Korea’s navy
Kim Jong Un has called for boosting North Korea’s navy, saying the country’s waters brimmed with “the danger of a nuclear war,” ...Japan to release Fukushima water into the ocean starting Thursday
By Sakura Murakami and Tom Bateman Reuters Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing more than 1 million metric tonnes of ...Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrested, jailed after return from years-long exile
BY JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI AP Thai ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra entered prison to begin serving an 8-year sentence Tuesday, hours after returning to ...Armenia and Azerbaijan clash over plight of 120,000 people in Nagorno-Karabakh facing food crisis
BY EDITH M. LEDERER AP Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Wednesday over the plight ...Pakistan’s Imran Khan jailed for three years and banned from politics for five years over ...
Police arrested Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore on Saturday after a court sentenced him to three years in prison ...North Korea’s Kim shows off banned missiles to Russian minister
Russia’s defence minister accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a defence exhibition that featured the North’s banned ballistic missiles as ...Powerful typhoon Doksuri lashes Philippines, threatens Taiwan, China
At least one person died as powerful typhoon Doksuri lashed the coastline of the northern Philippines with gale-force winds and torrential rain ...China, Taiwan brace for impact as super typhoon Doksuri nears
China urged fishing boats to seek shelter and farmers to speed up their harvest while Taiwan suspended annual military drills as super ...