Tag: Asia

More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to combat the disease, a study said. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Shoddy and fake drugs create new pandemic in developing nations

Robert King · April 20, 2015 6:25 pm

In this March 20, 2013, file photo, Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew attends the Standard Chartered Singapore Forum in Singapore. Singapore's first and longest-serving prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died Monday, the prime minister's office said. He was 91. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Lee Kuan Yew, longtime leader of Singapore, dies at 91

Joseph Lawler · March 22, 2015 9:01 pm

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Why the Internet threatens to ruin the Chinese model

Jimmy Soni · February 9, 2015 10:00 am

President Obama has invited several Asian leaders to Washington for state visits as he pursues a U.S. pivot to Asia, National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

White House invites Asian leaders for state visits

Susan Crabtree · February 6, 2015 7:46 pm

Former U.S. special envoy for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth, top, Joseph DeTrani, bottom right, and Tony Namkung, left, meet during breakfast ahead of meetings with North Korean officials, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, in Singapore. North Korea's chief nuclear envoy and former U.S. negotiators and security experts were in Singapore to discuss nuclear issues at meetings that started Sunday and will be held over two days. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

American representatives meet with North Korea over nukes

Jennifer Peebles · January 18, 2015 5:45 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Pakistan on Monday to discuss with officials of the key ally in the antiterrorism fight how to step up the battle against extremists. (AP/Rick Wilking)

National Security

John Kerry makes unannounced visit to Pakistan

Charles Hoskinson · January 12, 2015 2:29 pm

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, an F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Argonauts of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Red Sea on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC3 Nathan R. McDonald, Released)

National Security

Budget cuts threaten Pacific pivot: Report

Charles Hoskinson · January 5, 2015 9:23 pm

A United States citizen who had been detained in Timor-Leste for nearly two months was freed Thursday by a district court in the Southeast Asian country, the State Department said. (AP/Courtesy Bernadette Kero)

National Security

Jailed US veterinarian freed in East Timor

Zack Colman · December 25, 2014 9:22 pm

The Pathetic Pacific Pivot

Thomas Donnelly · December 22, 2014 4:06 pm

Coal firms that operate at federal mines won't be able to sell coal overseas at discounted rates any longer under a proposed Interior Department rule. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Interior Department floats rule to close coal fee loophole

Zack Colman · December 22, 2014 3:20 pm

North Korea: Breaking the Silence

Dennis Halpin · December 17, 2014 3:21 pm

Protest Signs Meet Obama in Burma: ‘Reform Is Fake,’ ‘Change’

Protest Signs Meet Obama in Burma: ‘Reform Is Fake,’ ‘Change’

Daniel Halper · November 14, 2014 5:08 pm