SEOUL: Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak was jailed for 15 years for corruption yesterday, becoming the latest of the country’s ex-leaders to be sent
JAKARTA: Indonesian police on Tuesday said they have arrested dozens of people for looting on the quake and tsunami-struck island of Sulawesi, where survivors have
PARIS: The tsunami that ravaged the Indonesian city of Palu was outsized compared to the earthquake that spawned it, but other factors — including a
PALU, Indonesia: It was two agonising days of searches through makeshift morgues and hospitals before Azwan found his wife Dewi alive and well after she
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and baby daughter Neve charmed the world in New York during last week’s UN General Assembly, but pundits
PALU (Indonesia): Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in a mass grave with space for more than a thousand people yesterday, victims of a quake-tsunami that
JAKARTA: Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful
JAKARTA: Indonesia was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or
GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to set up a panel to prepare criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations
MAJURO (Marshall Islands): Passengers were forced to swim for their lives yesterday when an airliner ditched into a lagoon after missing the runway on a
