At least 5 dead, 15 hurt in shooting at Mexico’s BPM music festival
MEXICO CITY – At least five people, including foreigners, have been killed and 15 were wounded after a shooter opened fire at a nightclub in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen resort during the…
Japan to supply new patrol boats to Vietnam
HANOI – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised Vietnam six new patrol boats during a visit to the Southeast Asian country locked in a dispute with China over the busy…
Turkish cargo jet crash kills at least 30 in Kyrgyzstan
A Turkish cargo jet has crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport, killing at least 30 people, most of them residents of a village struck by the Boeing 747 as it tried…
S.Korea prosecutors to seek arrest of Samsung chief
SEOUL – South Korea’s special prosecutors’ office has said it will seek a warrant to arrest the head of Samsung Group, the country’s biggest conglomerate, as a corruption scandal engulfing…
US Sec. Kerry visits site where he killed a man during Vietnam war
US Secretary of State John Kerry has returned to the place in Vietnam where he killed a man during the Vietnam war. The outgoing Secretary of State visited the Mekong…
Australia disappointed by Japan’s continued whale hunt in Southern Ocean
Australia has said its “deeply disappointed” Japan had continued whaling in the Southern Ocean after anti-whaling activists published a photograph of a dead whale and two days after Australian and…
CIA director warns Trump to watch what he says, be careful on Russia
WASHINGTON – CIA Director John Brennan has offered a stern parting message for Donald Trump days before the Republican US president-elect takes office, cautioning him against loosening sanctions on Russia and…
More rain and pain expected as Thai flood death toll rises to 40
BANGKOK – Thailand faces more hardship from unseasonable floods that have killed 40 people in its south, with more rain expected in the major rubber-producing and tourist region in coming…
Philippines’ Duterte says he may impose martial law if drug problem “virulent”
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would impose martial law if the drug problem became “very virulent”, just a month after dismissing as “nonsense” any suggestion he…
China and Vietnam to “manage” differences over South China Sea – communique
China and Vietnam have pledged to manage their differences and safeguard peace in the South China Sea, in a joint communique issued during a visit to China by Vietnamese Communist Party…
