Wall Street JournalResults for news from the Wall Street Journal about Asia News Page 1 of 486 news found. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - NEXT Asia News Hong Kong Police Arrest 12 Protesters Hong Kong police say they arrested 12 protesters who were blocking several roads in the Mong Kok district as pro-democracy demonstrators returned to the site hundreds had occupied for months. Thu, 25 Dec 2014 23:18:41 EST Asia News Militants Kill Dozens in Northeast India Suspected separatist rebels in India’s northeastern state of Assam killed at least 56 people and wounded others in a series of attacks. Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:40:53 EST Asia News Piles of Cash Pour Onto Hong Kong Road An armored van spilled nearly $2 million in cash onto one of Hong Kong’s busiest roads, bringing traffic to a halt as people got out of cars and scooped up money. Wed, 24 Dec 2014 06:59:56 EST Asia News After the Wave, Thai Boom Comes to Shore In the rebuild frenzy that followed the 2004 tsunami in southern Thailand, sea gypsies and other squatters find that land where they have lived for generations isn’t really theirs. Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:55:08 EST Asia News Australia Terror Risk Is High, Abbott Says Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the threat of a terror attack in the country was “high” after a recent siege in Sydney, and he warned that intelligence agencies had detected an increased level of militant communication since the hostage cri Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:54:15 EST Asia News Bangladesh Sentences Former Minister to Death A Bangladeshi war-crimes tribunal sentenced a former cabinet minister to death, after convicting him of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:35:15 EST Asia News Beijing Investigates Aide to Ex-President Hu China’s Communist Party said it was investigating a onetime top aide to former President Hu Jintao for unspecified violations of Communist Party discipline. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:01:16 EST Asia News Clashes Break Out Over Myanmar Copper Mine A woman was killed and dozens of others injured in clashes with police over a copper mine in central Myanmar, activists said, just after a state-run Chinese company said it would resume construction at the site. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:41:38 EST Asia News Five Janitors Guilty in Jakarta School Abuse Case An Indonesian court found five janitors guilty of sexually abusing a child at a prestigious international school, in a case that has riveted the city’s expatriate community. Mon, 22 Dec 2014 05:18:04 EST Asia News Jakarta School Sex-Abuse Case Nears an End Verdicts are expected Monday for five janitors accused of sexually abusing a child at a prestigious international school, in a case that has riveted the city’s expatriate community. Sat, 20 Dec 2014 05:50:57 EST Asia News HIV Infections in Cambodia Village Could Rise The number of confirmed HIV cases stemming from a mass infection in a remote northwestern part of Cambodia leapt to 140 and concerns are mounting that the tally could climb higher. Sat, 20 Dec 2014 02:54:32 EST Asia News U.S. Approves Sale of Warships to Taiwan The U.S. approved the sale to Taiwan of four used warships, drawing a swift rebuke from China, which called the move damaging to Chinese security interests. Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:50:57 EST Asia News Thailand, China Sign Agreements on Rail Link, Agriculture Thailand signed two memorandums of understanding with China on the development of a key rail link project and the purchase of agricultural products. Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:40:00 EST Asia News HIV Infections Surge in Cambodian Village Concern is building over the number of people who appear to have been infected with HIV in a village in northwestern Cambodia, with health officials saying that at least 90 people have tested positive for the virus. Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:37:59 EST Asia News Volcano in Eastern Indonesia Erupts A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Friday, spewing towering clouds of hot ash into the air and sending a group of hikers scrambling to safety, leaving nine injured and one missing. Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:16:02 EST Asia News South Korea Court Dissolves Party South Korean Court dissolved a small far-left political party, of which several members were found guilty of trying to instigate armed rebellion against the government in the event of war. Fri, 19 Dec 2014 01:43:00 EST Asia News Alleged Mastermind of 2008 Mumbai Attack Granted Bail A Pakistani court granted bail to the alleged mastermind of the 2008 attack in the Indian city of Mumbai, lawyers said. Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:59:16 EST Asia News Sony Hack Shines Light on North Korea's Cyber Attackers Blamed by the U.S. for the Sony hack, North Korea selects some of its brightest talent for its cyberwarfare program as its conventional forces age, defectors and experts say. Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:12:50 EST Asia News Taliban Attacks Kill 12 Across Afghanistan Taliban attacks killed at least 12 people across Afghanistan on Wednesday, underscoring the country’s deteriorating security situation as the U.S.-led combat mission winds down this month. Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:41:47 EST Asia News Pakistan Reaches Out to Kabul After School Massacre Pakistan’s army chief flew to Kabul to discuss ways of combating the Taliban, reaching out a day after the massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar. Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:49:59 EST Asia News Pakistan Attack Halts Political Wrangling Pakistan’s monthslong political confrontation has been temporarily put on hold, with leaders set to meet at the site of the Peshawar school massacre that killed at least 141, mostly children. Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:34:28 EST Asia News Asia Sees No Turbo Boost In Cheap Oil The economic boost from falling oil prices is being blunted in Asia, as governments use it to boost state coffers instead of passing savings on to consumers. Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:43:00 EST Asia News Bank Indonesia Steps Up Efforts to Defend Rupiah Indonesia stepped up efforts to defend the rupiah as it continued to fall to levels unseen since 1998 Asian financial crisis, underscoring the economy’s vulnerability to fund outflows. Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:03:41 EST Asia News Taliban Attack Pakistan School; More Than 100 Dead Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 104 people, most of them schoolchildren, in one of the militant group’s deadliest attacks. Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:44:37 EST Asia News Australia Confronts New Security Challenge As flower tributes piled up outside the Sydney cafe where hostages were held in a lengthy siege, Australians were confronting a new challenge—how to prevent such ‘lone-wolf’ attacks in future while maintaining the country’s cherished freedoms. Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:23:13 EST Asia News Sydney Cafe Siege Sparks Terror Fears Large parts of central Sydney were in lockdown Monday after at least one gunman took hostages in a cafe and placed an Islamic flag in the window, sparking concerns a terrorist attack was under way. So far, five people have safely exited the cafe. Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:40:48 EST Asia News Australia's Fiscal Outlook Dims Australia’s government downgraded the country’s fiscal outlook and said that slumping global commodity prices have taken a heavy toll on what just a few years ago was one of the world’s strongest economies. Mon, 15 Dec 2014 00:21:35 EST Asia News Indonesia Landslide Death Toll Rises The death toll from a landslide in Central Java rose to 42 on Monday and could climb further, as more than 70 are still missing. Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:13:14 EST Asia News Hong Kong Police Clear Last Protest Site Hong Kong police began to clear a small pro-democracy protest site in Causeway Bay, removing the last of the encampments that blocked roads across the city for over 10 weeks. Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:10:05 EST Asia News Indonesia Landslide Death Toll Rises The death toll from a landslide in Central Java rose to 32 and could climb further as more than 70 villagers remain missing two days after the disaster struck. Sun, 14 Dec 2014 06:21:54 EST Asia News Japan Begins Voting for Parliament in Referendum on Abe Japanese voters began selecting a new parliament on Sunday in an election seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies, known as Abenomics. Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:32:40 EST Asia News Taliban Attacks Kill 20 in Afghanistan A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan army bus in Kabul, one of several assaults across the country that killed at least 20 people. Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:38:41 EST Asia News Police to Clear Last Hong Kong Protest Site Police said they would clear the last-remaining pro-democracy protest site on Monday, a largely symbolic move to reopen an area that saw few protesters throughout the occupation. Sat, 13 Dec 2014 06:33:33 EST Asia News Indonesia Landslide Kills Eight A mudslide in a hilly village in Central Java left at least eight people dead and around 100 people missing, officials said. Sat, 13 Dec 2014 00:21:05 EST Asia News Vietnam Irks Beijing on South China Sea Vietnam has stepped into a legal battle between China and the Philippines, drawing a rebuke from Beijing for restating Vietnamese claims to disputed areas of the South China Sea. Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:17:40 EST Asia News Refugees Still Struggle in Philippines About 11,000 refugees still live in squalid conditions in a stadium in the southern Philippines after a rebel Muslim group launched an attack on Zamboanga more than a year ago. Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:26:02 EST Asia News Pakistani Taliban Call Malala an 'Enemy of Islam' The Pakistani Taliban called Malala Yousafzai an “enemy of Islam” and vowed to continue attacking their opponents, issuing their latest threat a day after the teenage education activist received the Nobel Peace Prize. Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:28:18 EST Results for news from the Wall Street Journal about Asia News Page 1 of 486 news found. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - NEXT |
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