April 17, 2013
Myanmar's charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made rare comments on April 17 on sectarian violence in her nation, but said she was "not a magician" and will not be able to solve long-running ethnic disputes.
April 17, 2013
SURABAYA, Indonesia--An official says an emaciated 15-year-old female Sumatran tiger is in critical condition at Indonesia's largest zoo, following the death of another rare tiger earlier this month at the problem-plagued facility.
April 16, 2013
It is an iconic image that turned a nation against a war: A young girl, naked and badly burned, her injured arms held from her body, flees screaming and crying from her smoking village in South Vietnam toward the unseen camera.
April 16, 2013
MANILA--A Chinese vessel that ran into a protected coral reef in the southwestern Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 10,000 kilograms (22,000 pounds) of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater.
April 15, 2013
KYOTO--Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said April 15 that her country needs more women in politics to reverse the value system that produced decades of military rule in her native Myanmar.
April 15, 2013
NEW DELHI--India's Supreme Court has ordered western Gujarat state to share some of its endangered lions with a neighboring state to create a second home for them.
April 15, 2013
DENPASAR, Indonesia--The pilot whose Indonesian jet slumped into the sea while trying to land in Bali has described how he felt it "dragged" down by wind while he struggled to regain control, a person familiar with the matter said.
April 15, 2013
THE HAGUE, Netherlands--Cambodia asked the United Nations' highest court on April 15 to clarify a 50-year-old ruling on ownership of a 1,000-year-old temple near its border with Thailand, warning that maintaining the status quo would be a threat to peace between the Southeast Asian neighbors.
April 14, 2013
Noriko Otsu leafs through a photo album at her home in Kyoto and recalls her reluctant words of advice to a friend the last time they were together in Japan in the mid-1980s.
April 13, 2013
JAKARTA--All 108 passengers and crew survived when a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on April 13 and landed in shallow water, an airline spokesman and government officials said.
April 12, 2013
When Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, head of Myanmar’s largest opposition party, arrives in Japan on April 13 for the first time in 27 years, she will be returning with mixed emotions to the country where she once studied as a researcher.
April 08, 2013
China isn't the only country in Asia struggling for cleaner skies. Though Beijing was in the spotlight earlier this year when reports surfaced of dangerous levels of air pollution, countries such as India, Vietnam and Iran are also suffering as an emphasis on economic growth puts measures to deal with vehicle exhaust on the back burner.
April 08, 2013
ISLAMABAD--Pakistan's top court on April 8 ordered former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to appear before the judges to answer allegations that he committed treason while in power and said the former president should not be allowed to leave the country.
April 06, 2013
MUMBAI--The death toll from a collapsed building in India's financial center Mumbai rose to 72 on April 6, as an injured woman trapped for 36 hours was freed from the rubble of the illegal and half-constructed building.
April 04, 2013
MANILA--Washington is this week deploying a dozen F/A-18 fighters to the Philippines, the first time it has sent so many of the aircraft there, to take part in annual military drills with a close security ally amid rising tension in the Asia-Pacific region.
April 03, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR--Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced he will dissolve parliament on April 3, paving the way for a long-anticipated general election late this month that could be the closest his ruling coalition has faced in its 56-year rule.
April 03, 2013
MANILA, Philippines--Six years and 52 million YouTube hits later, Filipino inmates who danced to "Thriller" inside a prison courtyard are getting their stories told in a movie drama about redemption and corruption behind bars.
April 03, 2013
MANILA--Government representatives and the Philippines' largest Muslim separatist group began drafting legislation on April 3 to end 40 years of conflict and set up an autonomous structure to run the poor, but resource-rich, south.
April 02, 2013
The India Supreme Court's rejection of a patent for an improved version of a costly cancer drug by Novartis AG could have big implications for the world's largest drugmakers.
April 02, 2013
YANGON, Myanmar--A fire engulfed a mosque housing orphans in Myanmar's largest city April 2 morning, killing at least 13 children in the blaze that police blamed on an electrical short.