China, other Asians angry over embassy spy reports
By KRISTEN GELINEAU In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 29, 2008, a man digs a trench near a mushroom shaped heating exhaust shaft near the newly constructed US embassy in…
Southeast Asia
BRUNEI’S SULTAN ANNOUNCES STRICT ISLAMIC PENALTIES
In this photo taken Thursday, Oct, 10, 2013, Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah speaks during the closing ceremony and handover of the ASEAN Chairmanship to Myanmar in Bandar Seri Begawan. The…
FILIPINO SULTAN WHO CLAIMED MALAYSIAN REGION DIES
By JIM GOMEZ FILE – In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III answers questions from reporters at his house in suburban Taguig, south of…
CHINESE GROWTH REBOUND SHORES UP WORLD MARKETS
By PAN PYLAS People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm as Japan’s bench mark Nikkei 225 Index closed at 14,588.51 after gaining 119.37 points, or 0.83…
TRIAL OF CAMBODIA’S KHMER ROUGE LEADERS NEARS END
By JUSTINE DRENNAN FILE – In this Aug. 29, 2011 file photo released by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, who was Pol Pot’s No. 2 and…
MAJOR QUAKE SHAKES CENTRAL PHILIPPINES, KILLS 20
By OLIVER TEVES Filipinos stand by a damaged Basilica Del Sto Nino in Cebu, central Philippines Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings, cracked roads and toppled the…
POLICE: SMALL TIME BOMB CA– USED MYANMAR HOTEL BLAST
By ROBIN MCDOWELL In this photo taken on Oct. 13, 2013, a Myanmar police officer, front left, talks with an army officer as they examine the scene of a small…
AROUND WORLD, THREAT OF AROUND WORLD, THREAT OF US DEFAULT INDUCES SHRUGS INDUCES SHRUGS
By BERNARD CONDON FILE – In this Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, file photo, a statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington. The Treasury…