All Asia Pacific
For Malaysia, missing airplane propels chaotic and confusing step onto world stageMalaysia's contradictory messages about missing flight MH370 have caused anger. Some blame habits of a closed political culture, though others say the crisis would challenge any nation.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why the confusion over how long the plane flew?Malaysia officials denied a report that Flight 370 flew for four hours after disappearing. It was the second time in a day that authorities had rejected an apparent breakthrough.- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Why the confusion about the flight path?Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Malaysia's Air Force chief says the last military radar signal from MH370 was at 2:15 a.m. Saturday, 200 miles northwest of Penang, Malaysia. But he says, he's not sure. Why the confusion?
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: A pilot suicide mission?Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The missing aircraft is now prompting theories that the aircraft was hijacked or the crew chose to change course. Could Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 be similar to SilkAir Flight 185, a pilot suicide tragedy in 1997?
Japan's Fukushima recovery: What's been done and what's still to doThree years after the tsunami that triggered nuclear meltdown and damaged much of Japan's northeast, there are still 270,000 displaced people and recovery is slow. Home construction shows progress.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Why is it taking so long to find?Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Why has the search area been widened to include the west side of the Malaysia peninsula? In the hunt for Flight MH370 are there lessons to be learned from Air France Flight 447?
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: What's being done to find the aircraftTen countries are assisting in the search, deploying military ships and repositioning satellites to help with the search.
Indonesia launches world's largest health insurance systemThe roll out of Indonesia's new health care program for its 247 million people, over a decade in the works, has been bumpy. Full implementation will take effect in 2019.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: China plays down terrorism theoriesMalaysia Airlines flight MH370's disappearance has lit up Chinese social media with speculation that Uighur separatists are to blame. Chinese and Malaysian authorities have found no evidence to support the idea that terrorists are behind Malaysia Airlines flight MH370's disappearance.
China to Russia: You're putting us in a tight spotChina's instinct is to stand by its strategic partner, but Russia's intervention in Ukraine's Crimea appears to violate China's principle of strict state sovereignty.
Relief and retrenchment in Bangkok as protesters shift tacticsProtesters who brought the city to a standstill have moved their protest camp into a local park, calming tensions, but a legal challenge to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is gaining steam.
China ups military spend by 12 percent. Are the gloves coming off?China plans to spend $132 billion on its military as it asserts its maritime interests, putting it at odds with the US military preeminence in the Pacific.
Why China compares Kunming station terror attack to 9/11Beijing has blamed Saturday's deadly attack at a train station on Uighur separatists from Xinjiang province. Foreign experts point to local grievances, but a strike-hard policy is popular.聽
China vows 'iron fist' response to deadly train station attackBeijing blamed Uighur separatists from restive Xinjiang Province for an attack in the southwestern city of Kunming that killed 29 people. State-run Xinhua news agency called it 'China's 9/11.'
Expos茅 of abused grandmother puts harsh spotlight on China's 'black jails'A woman petitioning for justice for her son was repeatedly held and beaten in an illegal jail. The resulting publicity from state-run media is raising hopes that officials will stop such abuses.
Southeast Asia seen failing Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya MuslimsInternational rights groups are calling for neighboring countries to protect Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar, where leaked documents allegedly reveal state-sponsored persecution.
Amid US-South Korean war drills, Korean families meet across the divideNorth Koreans stick to the script by praising their government and refusing gifts from their relatives in wealthy South Korea, where US troops have begun annual joint exercises.
Chinese fume over Obama-Dalai Lama meeting. Will there be blowback?President Obama is holding his third meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader. China views such meetings as interference in its affairs and has cowed some nations into shunning him.
Censored in Beijing: a correspondent watches himself fade to blackThe Monitor's Peter Ford knows censorship happens all the time on his China beat. But when it happened to him in an interview with CNN, he felt punched in the gut.
Hope and apprehension before rare Korean family reunionsElderly South Koreans chosen by lottery will be meeting long-lost relatives in North Korea, the first such meetings since 2010.
