Kim Jong-Un reportedly tells his forces to prepare for military action as tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula.

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Ignoring El Niño is not an option for countries in Asia, which face a cost of many billions of dollars and lives lost if they fail to act.

Twin typhoons on the western Pacific are expected to target areas from Taiwan to Japan.

A trip to Myanmar finds the sport that explains nothing and everything about the country at once. By Spencer Hall.

In the Western Pacific, a pair of tropical disturbances, 97W and 98W, appear destined to become twin typhoons early next week, according to the latest runs of the European and GFS models.

South Korea's government says it is monitoring reports that North Korea's vice-premier Choe Yong-gon was killed in May on the orders of Kim Jong-un. Mr Choe was executed after he "expressed discomfort against the young leader's forestation policy", South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports. Close to 70 officials have been killed under Kim Jong-un's rule, Yonhap says.

Why Australia won’t help the Rohingya. By Richard Cooke.

If one country’s price-setting adjustment is another’s competitive devaluation, then Asia could be facing a round of currency wars following China’s sharp devaluation of the renminbi. Markets across the region were enjoying the August lull on

Once thought to be a Himalayan myth, Bhutan’s national flower is a once-in-a-lifetime find.

Najib Razak's response to corruption allegations has been a crackdown on investigators and his critics on both sides of politics. Malaysians are left wondering where their nation is headed.

Taiwan braced for a direct hit from Typhoon Soudelor on Saturday as the storm took dead aim at the island and was expected to make landfall in a matter of hours, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

North Korea announced Friday it was moving its clocks back 30 minutes to create a new "Pyongyang Time" -- breaking from a standard imposed by "wicked" Japanese imperialists more than a century ago. The change will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind South Korea which, like Japan, is at GMT+9:00. North Korea said the time change, approved on Wednesday by its rubber-stamp parliament, would come into effect from August 15, which this year marks the 70th anniversary...

On a quiet river bend on the China-Vietnam border, a group of people clambered up a muddy bank. They had just glided across the river from the Vietnamese side in a longboat, guided by men on both banks signaling with flashlights... By James Pomfret.

A fish hobbyist and entrepreneur has named his first product Dokdo Tank - a smart aquarium that he hopes evokes imagery of the disputed Korean islets.

Another day, another devastating escalator accident in China. An employee at Longemont Shopping Mall in Shanghai's Changning district had his foot and part of his leg amputated after becoming trapped in an escalator, according to the South China Morning Post. The worker, identified simply as Zhang, was cleaning the escalator with a mop when he reportedly stepped on it. The mall described the 35-year-old's action as an "improper" one, and said the mop's brush...

When Atsushi Hoshino set out to revive a group representing atomic bomb survivors in the rural northeast Japanese prefecture of Fukushima 30 years ago, one topic was taboo,criticizing the nuclear power industry upon which many relied for jobs

A major eruption occurred at Manam volcano, Papua New Guinea early on July 31, 2015. The Darwin VAAC reported volcanic ash plume reached 19.8 km (65 000 feet) .

North Korea has issued a statement to the State News Agency that their recent space exploration mission to Saturn was a huge success. It’s been confirmed that North Korea has become the first country to land a man on Saturn. Hung Il Gong made landfall on Saturn at approximately 3 a.m. this morning.