February 8, 2017 Japan broad trade surplus at 9-year high on export rebound Japan says its current account surplus hit a 9-year high in 2016, helped by lower costs for imported oil and improved exports.
February 8, 2017 Southwestern Pakistan rattled by magnitude 6.4 earthquake A Pakistani official says a strong, magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck the country's remote southwest and that there are reports of damages to houses but no casualties.
February 7, 2017 Unpublished photos from Korea’s 1948 Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion In October 1948, communist rebels on the Korean Peninsula revolted against the government of President Syngman Rhee, in a violent conflict known as the Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion, which paved the way for the Korean War. Life.com has published a series of photos by Carl Mydans, who covered the conflict when the rebellion began.
February 7, 2017 UN expert urges Thailand to stop banning insults to monarchy An outside expert for the U.N.
February 7, 2017 Philippine leader scolds 228 police on TV; to face militants Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has angrily berated more than 200 erring policemen on national TV and said he will send them to a distant island to fight militants dreaded for beheadings.
February 7, 2017 Thai king appoints new patriarch of country's Buddhist order Thailand's king has named a new supreme patriarch to head the country's Buddhist order, ending a deadlock that left the position empty for more than three years.
February 7, 2017 Afghanistan requests US air support for combat operations Afghanistan's national security adviser is appealing to the U.S. to provide aircraft to back ground operations in the country until Afghan security forces can do the job alone.
February 7, 2017 Australian sentenced to death in Thailand for drug killing A Thai court has sentenced an Australian man to death for the murder of a countryman who was an alleged confederate in a drug smuggling gang.
February 7, 2017 Vatican debated whether to invite China to organ meeting Vatican officials are defending their decision to invite a Chinese delegation to an organ trafficking conference, saying the positives of encouraging reform outweighed negative criticism that the Holy See was helping whitewash Beijing's use of organs from executed prisoners.
February 7, 2017 Chinese judge labels Trump 'public enemy of the rule of law' A top Chinese judge has labeled Donald Trump a "public enemy of the rule of law" over his insults directed at a U.S. judge who suspended the president's travel ban.
