August 06, 2012
GUWAHATI, India -- Hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in squalid, overcrowded camps in India's northeast desperately need food, water and medicines after fleeing some of the worst communal violence in a decade, officials and aid workers said on Aug. 6.
August 06, 2012
PHNOM PENH -- Villagers in northwestern Cambodia unearthed what could be a mass grave from the Khmer Rouge era with about 20 skulls and some leg bones bound with rope, officials said Aug. 6.
August 05, 2012
YANGON--A top United Nations envoy on Aug. 4 voiced grave concern over alleged abuses by Myanmar security forces after sectarian violence in Rakhine State and urged a full and credible state investigation.
August 04, 2012
DUBAI -- Iran has successfully test fired a new short-range missile equipped with a guidance system it plans to install on all future missiles it builds, Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on August 4.
August 04, 2012
YANGON -- Myanmar's president on Aug. 3 pardoned a cancer-stricken man sentenced to death for killing 10 people in a festival bombing two years ago, the latest of hundreds of prisoners to be freed under the country's reformist government.
August 04, 2012
NEW DELHI -- India plans to send a satellite via an unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars next year, joining a small group of nations already exploring the red planet, a government scientist said on Aug. 3.
August 04, 2012
MUMBAI -- India needs a more cohesive energy policy and stringent grid management to avoid a recurrence of the power outages that hit hundreds of millions of people this week, the chief executive of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. said in an interview.
August 03, 2012
There is a strong thirst in Myanmar for Japanese fashion, culture and cuisine, according to an exchange mission that visited the booming nation.
August 01, 2012
YANGON -- The World Bank will provide a restructuring loan to help Myanmar clear $397 million in arrears by January, a senior official said on August 1, as the Washington-based development bank opened an office in the country and prepared to step up aid work there.
August 01, 2012
SITTWE, Myanmar--Human Rights Watch says Myanmar forces failed to intervene as sectarian violence erupted last month in western Myanmar and then opened fire on Muslim Rohingyas as they tried to save their burning homes.
July 31, 2012
SITTWE, Myanmar--A United Nations human rights envoy traveled to western Myanmar on July 31 to investigate communal violence that left at least 78 dead and tens of thousands homeless.
July 31, 2012
NEW DELHI--Half of India's 1.2 billion people were without power on July 31 as the grids covering a dozen states broke down, the second major blackout in as many days and an embarrassment for the government as it struggles to revive economic growth.
July 30, 2012
JAKARTA -- Indonesia's state-run railway company has lowered the electrical lines powering commuter trains in its latest bid to stop commuters from riding on train roofs.
July 30, 2012
YANGON -- A United Nations human rights expert kicked off a weeklong visit to Myanmar on July 30 by focusing on deadly strife between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas that shook a western area in June.
July 30, 2012
HANOI -- Dinh Thi Hong Loan grasps her girlfriend's hand, and the two gaze into each other's love-struck eyes. Smiling, they talk about their upcoming wedding -- how they'll exchange rings and toast the beginning of their lives together.
July 30, 2012
MANDAUE CITY, Philippines -- In the Philippines, they vote with their trigger fingers. Elections mean big business for illegal gunsmiths, who are looking forward to 2013 mid-term polls.
July 30, 2012
NEW DELHI--A massive grid failure in Delhi and much of northern India left more than 300 million people without electricity on July 30 in one of the worst blackouts to hit the country in more than a decade.
July 25, 2012
KOKRAJHAR, India--Indian security forces patrolled deserted streets on July 25 after days of ethnic riots in Assam state killed at least 36 people, forced tens of thousands to flee their razed homes and shut down road and rail transport.
July 25, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar--Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi used her first speech in parliament on July 25 to call for laws protecting the rights of the country's impoverished ethnic minorities.
July 24, 2012
BEIJING--China's newest city is a tiny and remote island in the South China Sea, barely large enough to host a single airstrip. There is a post office, bank, supermarket and a hospital, but little else. Fresh water comes by freighter on a 13-hour journey from China's southernmost province.