CHINA-NORTH KOREA — China dispatched its highest-level envoy to North Korea in two years in a bid to improve chilly relations after President Donald Trump last week urged Beijing to pressure Pyongyang...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Amnesty International says it has documented violations of humanitarian law, some amounting to war crimes, during the five-month conflict between Philippine government troop...
BEIJING (AP) — A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for gl...
President Donald Trump has temporarily put his sons in charge of his company, but the Trump Organization still does business abroad. That has prompted questions about whether that might influence Trum...
APEC — Trade ministers from 11 Pacific Rim countries announce an agreement on pushing ahead with a free-trade deal whose destiny was uncertain after President Donald Trump dropped it. By Tran Van Min...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Southeast Asia started banding its unwieldy cluster of fledgling democracies, monarchies and authoritarian regimes into an EU-like collective half a century ago, but the div...
TOKYO (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said someone should talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and reassure him that nobody is out to remove him or destroy his country.
Duterte...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine official on Friday ordered an entire city police force off the job in metropolitan Manila after some of its members were suspected in the gruesome killing...
SOUTHEAST ASIA — Alarm over North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile tests, a germinal step to temper South China Sea disputes and unease over a disastrous siege by pro-Islamic State group mil...
AFGHANISTAN — A suicide bomber rammed his car packed with explosives into a bus carrying government employees in the Afghan capital, killing 24 people and wounding 42 others, police said. The attack i...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A year ago Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte promised to cleanse his Southeast Asian nation of illegal drugs in three to six months. He said he would tame corruption and ...
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HONG KONG-CHINA-20 YEARS — President Xi Jinping inspected troops based in Hong Kong as he asserts Chinese authority over the former British colony China took control of 2...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — It's been a remarkably turbulent first year for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, whose war on drugs has left thousands of suspects dead and prompted critics to call his...
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The general sat on a plastic lawn chair in the garden of his mother's home, the scent of tropical...
