. . BANGKOK – Phra Apichart Punnajanto, head of monk preachers at the prestigious Wat Benchamabopit (the Marble Temple) has been forced to shut down his...
. . NEW YORK – Each year, Forbes magazine releases its ranking of the world’s most powerful people—and it just can’t get enough of Vladimir Putin....
. Â . SOUTH CHINA SEA –Â Ash Carter Defense Secretary of the United States flew to a U.S. aircraft carrier transiting the disputed South China Sea...
. . YANGON – Opposition leader and chairperson of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi struck a defiant stance ahead of Sunday’s election...
. . BALI – Thousands of tourists are stuck on the Indonesian island of Bali, after a volcano eruption forced its airport to shut and nearly...
 .  . AFGHANISTAN – One would think we are still livening in the dark ages after a shocking Video was released showing Taliban men surrounding...
. . BATAM – An Indonesian court sentenced British television journalists Neil Bonner and Rebecca Prosser to two and a half months in jail on Tuesday...
MOSCOW – Viktor Sorochenko, an official with the Interstate Aviation Committee, said the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt over the weekend broke up in...
 .  . MANILA – Pressure on China over its claims to most of the strategic South China Sea went up a couple of notches this week....
. . HENAN — A two-story building collapsed into rubble while workers were trying to prop up the second floor during renovations in central China, killing...
. . ISMAILIAÂ – A Russian passenger plane carrying 217 passengers and 7 crew members has crashed on a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg,...
. . BEIJING – Chinese Admiral Wu Shengli told his U.S. counter part Admiral John Richardson that a minor incident could spark war in the South...
. . BEIJING – China’s Communist party will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child...
. . MIAMI – The photo of a naked young girl howling as napalm scorched her skin is seared into America’s consciousness. She is the indelible...
. . KUALA LUMPUR – Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that human rights in Malaysia have deteriorated under Prime Minister Najib Razak’s administration despite his...
. . SOUTH CHINA SEA – The United States Navy has sent the guided-missile destroyer, USS Lassen, near China’s reclaimed islands in the disputed South China...
. Â . HONG KONG – Investigators still did not know what caused Sunday’s accident, when a high-speed ferry from Macau to Hong Kong hit an “unidentified...
. . TOFINO – Five people have died after a whale watching vessel sank in the icy cold waters off the coast of Tofino, B.C. Canada,...
. . LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was partly responsible for the emergence of the Islamic State...
. . CEBU – The Chinese consular officer and her husband, who allegedly killed two other Chinese diplomats and wounded their consul-general in a Philippines restaurant,...