Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong died on Friday after holding the country’s most powerful position for 13 years. He was 80. He died in the early afternoon “due to old age and serious illness,” the Communist Party said in a statement on its website, without elaborating further on the nature of the...
Six people including two Vietnamese Americans have been found dead in a Bangkok luxury hotel in Thailand and police say they died from cyanide poisoning with one of them believed to have poisoned the others over a bad investment, Thai authorities said Wednesday. The grisly discovery was made by a maid on Tuesday just after...
The United States’ new top envoy to Taiwan promised Wednesday that Washington will help the self-ruled island defend itself as China ramps up its military threats. The weight of the message from Raymond Greene, who assumed his new role as director of the American Institute in Taiwan on Monday, was underscored by the strong show...
South Korea is preparing to launch a laser-based defense system that will more easily destroy drones flying in from the North. The “Block-I” program, also referred to as “StarWars” hopes to make South Korea the first national military in the world to weaponize directed light. “Our country is becoming the first country in the world...
In the third year of the war in Ukraine, NATO is set to deepen relations with its four Indo-Pacific partners, which, although not part of the military alliance, are gaining prominence as Russia and China forge closer ties to counter the United States and the two Koreas support opposing sides of the conflict in Europe....
At least 27 people, including 19 police and other government personnel, were injured when a large pile of confiscated illegal fireworks exploded in a powerful blast in the southern Philippines, damaging houses, hotels and an international airport, officials said Tuesday. Two of the victims of Monday afternoon’s explosion were in serious condition in a hospital...
A landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 11 people, officials said Monday. Dozens of others were reported missing. About 79 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in the remote Bone Bolango district in Gorontalo province when tons of mud...
India’s prime minister begins a two-day visit to Russia on Monday, his first since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, a war that has complicated the relationship between the longtime partners and pushed Russia closer to India’s rival China. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit will include a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, whom he last...
