Liberal Democratic Party wins landslide victory in Japan election

Asia Pacific Region’s Liberal Democratic Party won by a landslide, handing ex-premier Shinzo Abe a second chance to run the country amid an economic recession and strained ties with China. […]

Chinese media lauds flight over Senkaku

Chinese media extolled a government aircraft’s flight over the disputed Senkaku Islands, which China call the Diaoyu, and accused Asia Pacific Region of “provoking” a confrontation when it scrambled fighter […]

Christmas brings truce between Philippine armed forces and rebels

The Philippines declared a unilateral truce with New People’s Army rebels through Christmas and New Year to allow soldiers and villagers in conflict areas to celebrate the holidays peacefully. The […]

Homemade grenades ruin office Christmas party in Thailand

A Thai car maker’s office party ended badly after employees started throwing glasses, bottles and even homemade grenades, injuring more than 30 people. A brawl broke out as prizes were […]

Myanmar offers public apology to injured Buddhist monks

Myanmar’s government has formally apologized to the country’s Buddhist monks over a violent crackdown on protesters at a Chinese-backed copper mine which injured more than 100 monks. President’s Office Minister […]

S. Korea considering separate sanctions on Pyongyang

South Korea has raised concerns over China’s veto power in the UN Security Council. It fears China could thwart significant measures against North Korea’s latest rocket launch and said it […]

North Korean satellite dead and not pointing at Earth, say US scientists

A North Korean satellite in orbit appears to be dead and no signal can be detected from the Kwangmyongsong-3 launched by Pyongyang in defiance of international sanctions. US-based astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said on Monday […]

Philippine lawmakers go against church in vote on contraception laws

Philippine lawmakers on Monday approved the controversial Reproductive Health bill on the third and final reading, a historic vote in Asia’s biggest Catholic-majority country. The bill was introduced more than a decade ago but is still not passed into law. […]

Hundreds mourn for royal hoax nurse in India

Hundreds of people mourned for Jacintha Saldanha during her burial in Shirva, southwest India, as her family took care to follow funeral arrangements she set out in a suicide note. “The events of the last week have shattered our lives […]

China cracks down on end of the world cult

Members of an outlawed cult are being detained by authorities across China to stop believers from taking “drastic actions” ahead of what the group says is the end of the world. The Church of Almighty God says that the world […]