Pakistan Report: Militants Operating With Impunity in Sindh Province Prisons Convicted militants and criminals imprisoned in Pakistan's Sindh province are reportedly running day-to-day affairs of the same prisons they are… 07/20/2017 Aimas
In Suu Kyi’s Myanmar, Concern Rises Over Press Freedom In the old, military-ruled Myanmar, it would not have been a surprising scene: three journalists, bound together in chains, raising… 07/20/2017 Aimas
Myanmar Grapples With Legacy of Independence Hero 70 Years After Assassination Long lines wrapped around the block of downtown Yangon’s historic Secretariat building on Wednesday, with schoolchildren, adults and groups of… 07/19/2017 Aimas
Deadly Crash of Myanmar Military Jet Blamed on Bad Weather Investigators in Myanmar have concluded that bad weather caused last month's crash of a military plane that killed all 122… 07/19/2017 Aimas
Asia’s Richest Man Comes Under Pressure in China Asia's richest man, Wang Jianlin, suddenly finds himself cornered. The giant Dalian Wanda Group, which he heads, is facing a… 07/19/2017 Aimas
Army General Among Thais Convicted of Human Trafficking A Thai army general was one of the most prominent figures found guilty Wednesday in a major human trafficking trial… 07/19/2017 Aimas
Indonesia Sounds a Soft Warning in Renaming Part of Disputed Sea Indonesia's move to rename part of the contested South China Sea appears to be a warning to the most powerful… 07/19/2017 Aimas
NATO: Plane Carrying Afghan VP Denied Landing Rights NATO confirmed Tuesday that Afghanistan’s vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, tried to return to the country overnight but that his… 07/18/2017 Aimas
South Korea Proposes Military, Family Reunion Talks With North South Korea on Monday proposed military talks with North Korea this week, the first government-level talks since late 2015, in… 07/17/2017 Aimas
India’s Low-paid Garment Workers Seek $7.6M Compensation On a sweltering summer morning in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a dozen garment workers crowd into a small… 07/17/2017 Aimas
Australia to Make it Easier to Deploy Military for ‘Terrorist Incidents’ Australia's military will be more readily deployed to respond to "terrorist incidents" on home soil under proposed changes to laws… 07/17/2017 Aimas
Pakistan Unleashes New Anti-IS Military Operation Near Afghan Border Pakistan’s military launched a major ground offensive Sunday to clear an isolated militant-infested border valley that Islamic State loyalists are using… 07/16/2017 Aimas
16 Indian Pilgrims Killed As Bus Falls into Gorge in Kashmir A bus plunged into a 45-meter-deep (150-foot-deep) gorge in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Sunday, killing at least 16… 07/16/2017 Aimas
Afghan Families Displaced by IS Claim Lack of Assistance As U.S. and Afghan security forces battle Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, thousands of families who… 07/15/2017 Aimas
American, Afghan Forces Intensify Anti-IS Fight in Afghanistan As the Islamic State terror group loses ground in Iraq and Syria, U.S. and Afghan forces are stepping up their… 07/13/2017 Aimas
US Senate Confirms Businessman Hagerty as Ambassador to Japan The U.S. Senate confirmed private equity executive William Hagerty on Thursday as President Donald Trump's ambassador to Japan, filling a… 07/13/2017 Aimas
Botswana Risks China Backlash With Dalai Lama Visit Botswana will host the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, next month, officials said on Thursday, risking a backlash from China,… 07/13/2017 Aimas
Rights Groups, Nobel Commission Express Regret Over Liu’s Death U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is calling for China to release Liu Xiaobo's widow from house arrest Thursday. "I… 07/13/2017 Aimas
Indonesian Muslim Martial Arts Club Takes Aim at IS Indonesia’s Sunni Islamic social welfare organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), which calls itself the largest Muslim group in the world with… 07/13/2017 Aimas
China Reducing Massive Influence of Social Media Celebrities China is trying to contain the awesome influence of social media celebrities, some of whom have tens of millions of followers… 07/13/2017 Aimas