‘I Just Want My Legs Back’: Myanmar Landmine Casualties Soar
By VICTORIA MILKO and DAVID RISING Associated Press
BANGKOK (AP) — The 3-year-old boy had taken only two steps from his mother's lap when a...
Twilight Over Burma: The Memory of an Unforgettable Love Story
The love story between a European woman from Austria and a Shan prince from Southeast Asia, told to the world through the film Twilight...
Scientists find evidence of lunar tide effects in Earth’s plasmasphere
BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese scientists and their overseas counterparts have for the first time discovered evidence of a lunar...
Myanmar Resistance Steadfast Against Army Rule 2 Years Later
BANGKOK (AP) — The prospects for peace in Myanmar, much less a return to democracy, seem dimmer than ever two years after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, experts say.
South Korea Probes Halloween Crowd Surge as Nation Mourns
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police are investigating what caused a crowd surge that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities in Seoul last weekend in the country’s worst disasters in years, as President Yoon Suk Yeol and other residents paid respects to the dead at temporary mourning sites.
Explainer: Boosters Key to Fight Omicron, Lot Still to Learn
The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is but scientists don’t yet know if it causes more severe disease even as the world faces exploding cases just before Christmas.
Laos-China Railway to Launch as Debt To Beijing Mounts
BEIJING (AP) — Laos, a nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links China’s poor southwest to foreign markets but piles on potentially risky debt.
COVID Variant Spreads to More Countries as World on Alert
LONDON (AP) — The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread.
From 9/11’s Ashes, a New World Took Shape. It Did Not Last.
In the ghastly rubble of Ground Zero's fallen towers 20 years ago, Hour Zero arrived, a chance to start anew.
Biden Wins White House, Vowing New Direction for Divided U.S.
The Associated Press declares Joe Biden the winner of a grueling campaign for the American presidency.
