Matthew Pennington

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US: Patience with Sri Lanka could ‘wear thin’

Matthew Pennington · December 3, 2013 7:05 pm

Institute: NKorea resumes work at old launch site

Matthew Pennington · November 29, 2013 9:16 pm

In this Nov. 26, 2013, photo, computer screens display a map showing the outline of China's new air defense zone in the East China on the website of the Chinese Ministry of Defense, in Beijing. While the Obama administration is making diplomatic progress on some of the MideastÃ?s thorniest security issues, problems are piling up in Asia, a region that President Barack Obama had wanted to play a bigger part in American foreign policy. Despite efforts to forge deeper ties with China to make East Asia more stable, BeijingÃ?s declaration of a maritime air defense zone has escalated its territorial dispute with U.S. ally Japan. The U.S. responded by flying B-52 bombers through the zone on a training mission Tuesday without informing Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Problems pile up in Asia for US policymakers

Associated Press, Matthew Pennington · November 27, 2013 6:32 pm

Senator: Bangladesh still lags on labor rights

Matthew Pennington · November 22, 2013 10:20 pm

Indonesian protesters throw eggs during a demonstration outside Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. Indonesia has "downgraded" its relations with Australia and suspended cooperation on people smuggling following outrage over reported eavesdropping on senior Indonesian leaders' phones, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Australia FM: Asia wants more US engagement

Matthew Pennington · November 22, 2013 7:38 pm

US: No dialogue if NKorea keeps nukes running

Matthew Pennington · November 20, 2013 11:49 pm

In this photo taken on Sept. 3, 2013 and released by the Chinese Navy on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, sailors line up on a Chinese nuclear submarine at the Qingdao submarine base in east China's Shandong province. (AP File)

National Security

US panel: China navy power growing in the Pacific

Matthew Pennington · November 20, 2013 5:52 pm

An Airman with the Philippines Air Force helps offload Filipino civilians out of a U.S. Marine Corps C-130 Hercules aircraft at Villamor Air Base, Philippines. U.S. service members are assisting the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the recovery efforts for the people affected in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. (AP Photo/NMCS, Cpl. Codey Underwood)

1,000 US troops to help Philippine aid effort

Matthew Pennington · November 14, 2013 12:05 am

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2009 photo shows village malaria worker Phoun Sokha, 47, showing his malaria medicine kit at O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless. This time, scientists have confirmed the first signs of resistance to the only affordable treatment left in the global medicine cabinet for malaria: Artemisinin. U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually. The report warns that could be a health catastrophe in the making, as no alternative anti-malarial drug is on the horizon. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia

Associated Press, Matthew Pennington · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Pacific commander plans for NKorea missile threat

Matthew Pennington · November 5, 2013 6:53 pm

UN panel told NKorea regime to blame for famine

Matthew Pennington · October 31, 2013 10:05 pm

Jin hye Jo wipes a tear as she testifies during a hearing of the United Nations mandated Commission of Inquiry about the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Washington. Jo wiped the tear while talking about her brother dying in her arms. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

NKorea defector testifies at UN rights probe in US

Matthew Pennington · October 31, 2013 12:13 am