ASEAN

DANANG, Vietnam — The Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned by President Donald Trump remains in limbo, judging from differing reports on the status of...

BURIRAM — Amid political tension between the two countries, North Korea and Malaysia are about to face each other in a pair of Asian Cup qualifiers in neutral Thailand.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have a full agenda for their likely encounter on the sidelines of a Pacific nations' summit this week, the Kremlin said Wednesday.

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia — Defense lawyers in the trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sought Wednesday to establish there was a political motive in the brazen airport assassination, with many key suspects linked to the secretive state.

BEIJING — When Chinese leader Xi Jinping said last month that "no country can afford to retreat into self-isolation," he might as well have been talking about Donald Trump as the U.S. president makes his first official visit to Southeast Asia.

WASHINGTON — When China rolls out the red carpet for Donald Trump, the grandeur of its welcome for the larger-than-life American president will mask a sobering reality.

JAKARTA — Indonesia's top court on Tuesday overturned a law that denied recognition and legal rights to followers of indigenous faiths in a surprise advance for religious freedom in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a statement Monday strongly condemning the violence that has caused more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh, a significant step that still fell short of a stronger resolution that Western nations wanted but China opposed.

HANOI — A powerful typhoon that rocked Vietnam has killed at least 44 people and caused extensive damage to the country's south-central region.

President Donald Trump embarks on his first official visit to Asia, which begins Sunday in Japan.