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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…