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Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in 2015 in Manama, Bahrain. Photo: Hasan Jamali / Associated Press

53 Journalists Killed Worldwide so Far in 2018, Report Says

NEW YORK — The number of journalists killed worldwide in retaliation for their work nearly doubled this year, according to an annual report by...
This recent but undated photo, released Monday, shows Ali Hassan with his dying 2-year-old son Abdullah in a Sacramento, California hospital. Photo: Associated Press

Yemeni Mother Wins Fight to Fly to US and Give Dying Son a Kiss

All Shaima Swileh wants is to give her son one more kiss before he dies. The Yemeni woman is about to get her wish after...
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Transit Authority to Look Into BTS Wheelchair Ramp to Nowhere

SAMUT PRAKAN — Less than two weeks after a slew of new BTS stations opened in southeast metro Bangkok, netizens pointed a glaring oversight...

Sun, Snow and Shirtless: Asia’s Sports Photos of 2018

From scorching tennis courts in a summer Down Under, to the ice and snow of Pyeongchang, the surf and sand of Australia's Gold Coast...
In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang, northwest China. Image: Associated Press

US Sportswear Traced to Factory in China’s Internment Camps

HOTAN, China — Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China's...
US President Donald Trump answers a reporters question about Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque in September at the UN General Assembly. Photo: Evan Vucci / Associated Press

Trump Foundation Reaches Deal to Dissolve Amid Lawsuit

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's charitable foundation reached a deal Tuesday to go out of business, even as Trump continues to fight allegations...
Actress Penny Marshall arrives for the 56th Annual Academy Awards in 1984 in Los Angeles. Photo: Reed Saxon / Associated Press

Penny Marshall, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Star & ‘Big’ Director, Dies at 75

Penny Marshall, who indelibly starred in the top-rated sitcom "Laverne & Shirley" before becoming the trailblazing director of smash-hit big-screen comedies such as "Big" ...

Nearly Dozen Charoen Krung Homes Ravaged by Fire

BANGKOK — About 10 residences in the city’s old quarter were destroyed in an early morning fire Wednesday.
A crane boat raises the tour boat named the Pheonix from the sea floor in Phuket on Nov. 17, 2018.

Low Standards on Boat That Sank, Killing 47 Chinese Tourists

Police say their investigations have found that a boat that sank in July in rough weather off the southern island of ...
Pheu Thai Party's Sudarat Keyuraphan poses with a dog during a campaign stop Sunday in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district.

Regime Fears Embarrassment by Foreign Poll Monitors: Veteran Thai Observer

The Foreign Minister denied Tuesday he is barring international election observers from next year’s election while an expert monitor says the regime is worried about unflattering reports.

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