Five months after Seoul shut down a jointly run industrial park in North Korea, South Korean factory owners are still waging a defiant campaign to reopen what was the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. The shock closure of the Kaesong complex in early February forced businessmen behind the 124 ...
Dozens of Vietnamese who gathered for an anti-China protest in central Hanoi were taken away by authorities Sunday as they tried to rally support for an international tribunal’s ruling rejecting Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea. About two dozen people were bused away ...
A Minnesota woman is charged with beating and starving a woman she brought from China to work as a nanny, holding her in a state of “slavery or indentured servitude,” a prosecutor said. Lili Huang, 35, of Woodbury is charged in Washington County with ...
Thailand’s infamous sex industry is under fire, with the tourism minister pushing to rid the country of its ubiquitous brothels and a spate of police raids in recent weeks on some of the largest establishments providing sex services in Bangkok. Those who work in ...
Like many of the 1.2 million people serving in the army in North Korea, Eom Yeong Nam spent more time holding the wooden handle of a shovel than a Kalashnikov rifle during his years in the 501 Construction Brigade. “Except for basic military training ...
Ineffectual attacks by the Islamic State group’s followers in Southeast Asia have shown them to be fragmented and lacking in the expertise that has produced devastating death tolls elsewhere in the world. But terrorism experts say that the threat from the militants, who are ...
North Korea on Friday paraded a defector accused of involvement in a child abduction plot it says was masterminded by South Korean agents. In a carefully stage-managed press conference in Pyongyang, Ko Hyon Chol, 53, “confessed” to attempting to kidnap two North Korean girl ...
China warned Thursday of a “decisive response” to provocations in the South China Sea, as it faced mounting pressure to accept an international tribunal’s ruling against its claims to most of the strategically vital waters. China’s coast guard the same day meanwhile prevented Philippine ...
China said on Thursday it had issued a formal protest after Australia announced it would continue to exercise its right to freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea following a court ruling against China’s claims. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in ...
Vietnam on Thursday protested China’s recent activities in the disputed South China Sea, saying they seriously violate Vietnamese sovereignty. Chinese state media reported that two Chinese civilian aircraft on Wednesday landed successfully on two newly built airstrips on Mischief and Subi reefs. China also ...
A man has pleaded guilty to cutting off someone’s left testicle in an Australian motel room after responding to an online advert asking for help with a sensitive medical problem. Allan George Matthews, 56, admitted “removing tissue” from the 52-year-old “without consent or authority” ...
China said Wednesday it has successfully tested two more airfields built atop coral reefs in the Spratly Islands with civil flights, bringing the number of airfields open to civil aircraft in the disputed South China Sea archipelago to three. The official Xinhua News Agency ...
North Korea may be able to develop a submarine-based ballistic missile within a year, which would significantly increase the threat Pyongyang poses, a U.S. expert said Wednesday. The North Koreans “will attempt or succeed in a full-range test some time in the next 12 ...
