Countries Around World Gear Up Response to New Coronavirus Countries in Asia and elsewhere have begun body temperature checks at airports, railway stations and along highways in hopes of… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
UN Rights Panel Finds Climate Change Can be Cause for Asylum A U.N. human rights panel has ruled for the first time that people fleeing the effects of climate change may… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
Thai Opposition Party Survives Sedition Scare, But Threats Still Loom Thailand's Constitutional Court acquitted the country's most vocal opposition party of sedition on Tuesday, sparing it an imminent death but… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
China Sentences Ex- Interpol Boss to 13 Years for Bribes China has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in prison on charges… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
N. Korea’s New ‘Blunt’ Foreign Minister May Reinforce Foreign Policy Realignment North Korea has appointed a former military officer with a blunt-speaking reputation to be the country’s new foreign minister, the… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
Indonesia Fights Growing Pressure from China to Let it Use Use Disputed Waters China is raising pressure on Indonesia over rights to use a contested tract of sea and challenging the militarily weaker… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
South Korea Naval Unit to Expand Operations to Strait of Hormuz A South Korean anti-piracy unit has temporarily expanded its mission to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global oil route… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
Number of New Virus Infections Triples in China The number of people infected with a new strain of coronavirus in China tripled over the weekend and is spreading… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
Unhealthy Levels of Smog Choke Thai Capital for Over Week Unhealthy levels of smog have choked Bangkok for more than a week, as the Thai capital's residents fume over the… 01/21/2020 Aimeast
Huawei Exec Arrives for Extradition Hearing in Canada The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei begins Monday in a… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Pakistan: US ‘Applauded’ Steps Against Terror Financing Pakistan hosted high-level talks with the United States on Monday to review steps Islamabad has taken to choke funding sources… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Britain’s Johnson Poised to Give Huawei Role in 5G Development British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears set to give the go-ahead for Chinese telecom giant Huawei to play a role… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Famous Pakistani HR Defender Detained for Hours Authorities in Pakistan detained a human rights defender for seven hours at an airport as she tried to take a… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
US Envoy say it’s his Mustache; South Koreans say Otherwise The U.S. ambassador to South Korea has some unusual explanations for the harsh criticism he's faced in his host country.… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Malaysia Sends Back Trash, Says Won’t be World’s Waste Bin Malaysia has sent back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries since the third quarter last year,… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Bangladesh Court Orders Government to Tackle Rise in Rapes Bangladesh's government will set up a commission to investigate a sharp rise in the number of rapes, the deputy attorney… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Evacuation Crackdown Ordered as Philippine Volcano Seethes Philippine officials ordered a crackdown Monday on people being allowed daily visits to the homes they fled after Taal volcano… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Ford Vietnam Announces $82 Million Investment in Switch From Motorbikes to Cars Ford Vietnam has announced it is investing $82 million to increase production, which will speed up the transition to cars… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Chinese Health Officials Report Huge Spike in Cases of New Virus Chinese health officials in the central city of Wuhan confirmed 136 new cases of a new coronavirus -- a huge… 01/20/2020 Aimeast
Senior US Diplomat in Pakistan Amid Warming Mutual Ties A senior American diplomat began a four-day official visit to Pakistan Sunday amid warming bilateral relations that have followed meetings… 01/20/2020 Aimeast