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January 07, 2019

China, South Korea open Asian Cup with victories

With coach Marcello Lippi in charge and the team needing a bit of help from an own-goal, China came from behind to beat ...

January 04, 2019

Coaching heavyweights Lippi, Queiroz chase Asian Cup glory

The biggest-ever Asian Cup has a large collection of international coaching heavyweights providing extra glamor. Only one of ...

January 01, 2019

Hello, 2019: Revelry and reflection greet new year

Fireworks, concerts, spiritual services and political addresses abounded to mark the transition to 2019 as revelers around ...

December 31, 2018

2 dead, nearly 30 wounded in bomb blast at Philippine mall

Suspected Muslim militants remotely detonated a bomb near the entrance of a mall in the southern Philippines on Monday as ...

December 07, 2018

US priest in Philippines arrested on charges of sex abuse

Philippine immigration authorities have arrested an American Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting altar boys ...

December 06, 2018

The Latest: Attorney: US priest lived with multiple boys

The Latest on a U.S. priest accused of abusing altar boys in the Philippines (all times local): 1:50 p.m. The U.S.

November 30, 2018

3 Filipino police guilty of teen's murder in brutal drug war

A Philippine court found three police officers guilty on Thursday of killing a student they alleged was a drug dealer, in the ...

November 20, 2018

Xi: Talks on pact to avoid sea clashes could end in 3 years

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday negotiations between Beijing and Southeast Asian nations on a nonaggression pact ...

November 14, 2018

Southeast Asian-centered trade deal set for further delays

Leaders of Southeast Asian nations have again pushed back an agreement on a pan-Asian free trade deal amid a whirlwind of ...

November 09, 2018

Imelda Marcos convicted of graft, court orders her arrest

A Philippine court found former first lady Imelda Marcos guilty of graft and ordered her arrest Friday in a rare conviction ...

November 05, 2018

Sven-Goran Eriksson is at the helm of another national team

Sven-Goran Eriksson is at the helm of another national team. The 70-year-old Swede was introduced Monday as the coach of the ...

November 02, 2018

56,800 migrant dead and missing: 'They are human beings'

One by one, five to a grave, the coffins are buried in the red earth of this ill-kept corner of a South African cemetery.

October 19, 2018

EU drug agency urges approval for dengue vaccine

Europe's drug regulator has recommended approving the first vaccine for dengue despite concerns about the vaccine's wide use ...

October 19, 2018

Copter crashes on USS Ronald Reagan in Asia, sailors hurt

A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on Friday, causing non-fatal ...

October 01, 2018

String of disasters exacts heavy damage, human toll in Asia

A recent string of natural disasters, the latest a deadly earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, have exacted a severe toll ...

September 26, 2018

Arrested senator and Duterte critic: 'Democracy lost today'

President Rodrigo Duterte's fiercest critic in Congress was arrested Tuesday after the president revoked his 2011 amnesty for ...

September 21, 2018

Philippine villages at risk of landslides forcibly evacuated

Philippine troops and police forcibly evacuated residents of five villages vulnerable to landslides after the collapse of a ...

September 20, 2018

New landslide kills 21, buries houses in Philippines

A massive landslide buried dozens of homes near a central Philippine mountain Thursday, killing at least 21 people and ...

September 05, 2018

Philippine senator defies Duterte's arrest order in standoff

A Philippine senator who is President Rodrigo Duterte's fiercest critic in Congress remained holed up in the Senate on ...