Tag: Asia

A TV news program reports missiles launch conducted by North Korea at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, July 13, 2014. North Korea launched two projectiles presumed to be ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, South Korea said, the latest in a series of test-firings seen as expressions of anger over its failure to win talks on receiving outside aid, and over ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. The letters at a screen read " Launched two missiles". (AP Photo/Ahn Young-oon)

National Security

North Korea launches missiles in latest test-fire

JungYoon Choi · July 13, 2014 4:52 am

Asian stocks weak amid new Europe jitters

Asian stocks weak amid new Europe jitters

Kay Johnson · July 11, 2014 4:21 am

Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo, popularly known as "Jokowi" smiles during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, July 10, 2014. Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and former army general Prabowo Subianto are both claiming victory in Indonesia's presidential election based on unofficial "quick counts," raising the specter of prolonged political instability in Southeast Asia's largest economy. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesia deadlock: court may decide new president

Margie Mason · July 11, 2014 2:55 am

FILE - This May 26, 2014 file photo shows Afghan President Hamid Karzai in New Delhi, India. Civilian assistance to Afghanistan was always slated to shrink with America's military footprint, but U.S. aid officials were caught off-guard when Congress, upset by testy relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, slashed civilian aid by 50 percent this year. War-weary lawmakers, content with the level of Afghan aid already in the pipeline, backed the cut, but officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development warn that reducing aid too quickly is risky. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

Afghan aid is dropping, but how fast is too fast?

Deb Riechmann · July 10, 2014 7:37 pm

Hoping to project power, China finds itself alone

Jack Chang · July 10, 2014 3:56 pm

5 journalists jailed 10 years for Myanmar stories

5 journalists jailed 10 years for Myanmar stories

Washington Examiner · July 10, 2014 1:01 pm

People pass by 2014 Asian Games posters at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 10, 2014. North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on Thursday said the North proposed a meeting at a border village next Tuesday to discuss its Asian Games participation.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea cuts growth outlook on ferry disaster

Youkyung Lee · July 10, 2014 10:14 am

FILE - In this May 22, 2014, file photo, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak delivers a keynote speech at the 20th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo. Razak on Thursday, July 10, 2014, chided a ruling party lawmaker for tweeting a salute to Adolf Hitler while praising Germany for making it to the World Cup final. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Malaysia PM chides lawmaker for saluting Hitler

Washington Examiner · July 10, 2014 9:23 am

A road is submerged by an overflowed river following a typhoon in Yomitan, Okinawa, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. A powerful storm slammed through the southwestern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving at least 28 people injured and 63,000 homes without power before swerving toward the bigger island of Kyushu on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ryukyu Shimpo via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE, MANDATORY CREDIT

Tropical storm Neoguri hits Japan’s main islands

Yuri Kageyama · July 10, 2014 2:27 am

A man poses with a full page advertisement with the headline "Japan wants a war again" and showing mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that was published on the July 3, 2014 issue of the Chonqging Youth Daily newspaper days after Japan's cabinet approved a reinterpretation of the country's pacifist postwar constitution in Chonqing in southwestern China on Wednesday July 9, 2014. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Japan protests China paper’s map of atomic clouds

Mari Yamaguchi · July 9, 2014 11:53 am

Raid by Thai police exposes human trafficking ring

Raid by Thai police exposes human trafficking ring

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2014 11:42 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, third right, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, second right, and U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, second left, tour the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China with Chen Fei, left, deputy director of the Badaling Great Wall Special District, and Guo Jiaqiang, right, deputy director of the Badaling Foreign Affairs Office, in Beijing, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

US, China vow to improve cooperation

Bradley Klapper · July 9, 2014 8:46 am