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Malaysia to Pay US Firm up to $70M If It Finds Missing Plane

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — Malaysia's government said Wednesday it will pay U.S. company Ocean Infinity up to $70 million if it can find the wreckage or black boxes of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 within three months, in a renewed bid to solve the plane's disappearance nearly four years ago.

US Investigator of Ivory, Rhino Horn Trade Killed in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya — Esmond Bradley Martin, a Kenya-based American conservationist whose dogged investigations of the elephant ivory and rhino horn trades over decades were seen as critical in efforts to protect the threatened species, was found stabbed to death in his Nairobi home, Kenyan authorities said Monday.

Rohingya Say Myanmar Targeted the Educated in Genocide

BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh — The last time Mohammed Hashim saw his brother alive, he begged for his life, his arms bound behind his back as soldiers marched the 35-year-old teacher away.
A 1999 image of a wall in Pudu Prison, Malaysia. Photo: Jason7825 / Wikimedia Commons

Australian Sentenced to Death in Malaysia Drugs Case

KUALA LUMPUR — A lawyer for an Australian woman accused of drug trafficking in Malaysia says her client has been sentenced to death after an appeals court overturned a lower court's acquittal.
Philippine House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, left, speaks during the Third regular session of the 17th Congress on Monday in Quezon city, metropolitan Manila, Philippines. Photo: Aaron Favila / Associated Press

Chaotic Congress Row Stalls Duterte Speech, Rebel Deal

MANILA — A leadership row erupted in the Philippine House of Representatives on live TV Monday, delaying President Rodrigo Duterte's delivery of his annual...
Myanmar's State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to the media during a joint press conference with Japan's foreign minister Jan. 12, 2018. Photo: Hein Htet / Associated Press

Suu Kyi Says Rohingya Mass Grave Investigation ‘Positive’

BANGKOK — A state-run newspaper says Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called the military's investigation into the deaths of Rohingya Muslims found in a mass grave a "positive indication."

A Rights Lawyer Who Was Fleeing China Has Been Arrested In Neighboring Laos

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese rights lawyer stripped of his license for taking on sensitive cases has been arrested in the Southeast Asian country...

Vietnam To Greet 100 Millionth Citizen in April

HANOI, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is preparing to mark the birth of its 100 millionth citizen next month with a publicity campaign to...

Myanmar Protesters Defy Curfew; Media Outlets Ordered Shut

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Demonstrators in Myanmar’s biggest city came out Monday night for their first mass protests in defiance of an 8 p.m. curfew,

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