Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam finally acknowledged public dissatisfaction with her government but has offered no concessions. Her acknowledgement comes after landslide wins by pro-democracy...
Sources told the FT that officials in China want the situation in Hong Kong to stabilize before making a final decision on Carrie Lam, as they...
HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam “The Iron Lady” has been forced to back down on a highly controversial extradition bill to avoid...
HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s leader Tuesday refused to say why the city had denied a visa to Victor Mallet, a leading Financial Times journalist, despite...
– HONG KONG – The candidate favored by China’s Communist leadership was chosen as Hong Kong’s new leader on Sunday, in the first such vote since...
The mayor of a tourist central Thailand seaside town said officials are cleaning up litter at Bang Saen beach after a British blogger posted photos of...
The chief of Thai AirAsia (TAA) says it may merge with another low-cost carrier (LCC) to clamp down on pricing wars once flights eventually resume. Thai...
China’s President Xi Jinping has commissioned the worlds first “Made in China” aircraft carrier the Shandong. The Shandong is the second Chinese aircraft carrier to enter...
‘He died whimpering and crying’: Trump announces Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in US raid in Syria
BEIJING – Authorities in Beijing have ordered Muslim restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs. In Communist...
BANGKOK – South Korean, actress Lee Yeol-eum has been charged for harvesting endangered giant clams and faces a possible four year prison term if found guilty,...
BALTIMORE – Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein criticized former FBI Director James Comey for becoming a “Partisan pundit hack” in the two years since he was...
MOSCOW – Russian officials have given out conflicting numbers on a fiery airline accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, but they indicate at least 41 people died....
MELBOURNE – The Somali-born Australian who went on a deadly knife rampage in the country’s second-largest city Melbourne was inspired by Islamic State but did not...
GENEVA – Myanmar’s military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with “genocidal intent” and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be...
DAMASCUS – Four Iranian military personnel were killed in an airstrike on a Syrian airbase on Sunday, Iran’s Fars news agency said, as Syria and its main allies...
– JAKARTA – Unmarried tourists could face jail in Bali if they have sex, under proposed Indonesian laws after a petition from Islamic hardliners to...
– BARCELONA, Spain – Spanish police intensified a manhunt Friday for suspects behind two deadly vehicle attacks on civilians, shooting and killing five people wearing fake...
– TEHRAN, Iran – Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Iran’s parliament and the shrine of its revolutionary leader on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, wounding...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Four Arab nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar on Monday over its relations with Iran and support of Islamist groups,...
