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August 15, 2018 12:13 PM

JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The world should not be trapped in extremities based on religious beliefs or national ideologies; instead, it should take the "middle path", according to the resounding message driven home at the seventh biennial World Peace Forum in Jakarta that began on Tuesday (Aug 14).

India will send a manned mission into space by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Wednesday in a speech to the nation. “India will send into space - a man or a woman - by 2022, before that if possible,” Modi said in a marathon address at the Red Fort in New Delhi for the country’s Independence Day. The astronaut would be “carrying the national flag,” Modi said. The conservative prime minister said that India would be only the fourth country - after Russia...

August 15, 2018 11:48 AM

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday (Aug 16), which could make it the fourth nation to do so after the United States, Russia and China.

August 15, 2018 11:37 AM

BEIJING (REUTERS) - China will keep its economic growth within a reasonable range in the second half of the year, and will ensure that its full-year growth target is achieved, the country's state planner said on Wednesday (Aug 15).

The government wants the cars off the roads until they have been safety checked by BMW.

August 15, 2018 11:25 AM

JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The government is determined to carry out all necessary measures to prevent forest and land fires from spreading on the island of Sumatra, as the Asian Games are set to kick off on Aug 18 in Jakarta and Palembang, South Sumatra, at the peak of the dry season.

August 15, 2018 11:08 AM

KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The upcoming official visit of Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to China is special as it is crucial.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Wednesday, the anniversary of Japan’s second world war surrender, but did not visit in person. Past visits by Japanese leaders to Yasukuni have outraged China and South Korea because the shrine honours 14 Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal, along with war dead. Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Masahiko Shibayama, who made...

August 15, 2018 10:42 AM

SEOUL (REUTERS) - South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday (Aug 15) his planned third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month would be another step towards the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and an end to the 1950-53 Korean War.

August 15, 2018 10:33 AM

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian politician was widely condemned Wednesday (Aug 15) after demanding "a final solution" to immigration and calling for a return to the White Australia policy which favoured "European Christians".

August 15, 2018 10:30 AM

BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Environmental activist Feng Yongfeng has become the second high-profile charity chief in China to confess publicly this week to sexually assaulting women.

August 15, 2018 10:19 AM

MANILA (REUTERS) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said in a rare rebuke of Beijing he wants China to rethink its conduct in the South China Sea and that it has no right to repel foreign aircraft and boats passing by its artificial islands in the disputed waterway.

August 15, 2018 10:16 AM

TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan hiked the volcanic warning level on one southern island to the second highest on Wednesday (Aug 15), mandating that residents should prepare for evacuation, though an actual eruption at the peak had yet to be detected.

Senator Fraser Anning is condemned for using the Holocaust-associated term in an immigration debate.

August 15, 2018 10:03 AM

KUCHING (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Not everyone shares the same birthday as Malaysia but for one Sarawakian, even her name commemorates the nation's formation.

August 15, 2018 9:59 AM

BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Beijing bashed Washington on Tuesday (Aug 14) after US President Donald Trump signed into law the National Defence Authorisation Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which includes measures undermining China's territorial sovereignty and core interests.

August 15, 2018 9:59 AM

WELLINGTON (NYTIMES) - The popular breakfast of avocado toast is under threat in New Zealand, with two years of low harvests generating waiting lists for avocado trees at garden centers and inspiring a rash of thefts from orchards.

August 15, 2018 9:12 AM

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US talks with North Korea on denuclearisation are making progress "in the right direction," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Tuesday (Aug 14).

August 15, 2018 8:46 AM

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Jang Ka-yoon, a 27-year-old office worker in Seoul, had thought about leaving her home country after watching TV news reports on the worsened security situation upon threats exchanged between North Korea and the US last year.

August 15, 2018 8:18 AM

TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Wednesday, the anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender.