Kelly Ng

North Korea has arrested a fourth official over the failed launch of a new warship that has enraged the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Ri Hyong-son, deputy director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Munitions Industry Department, was “largely responsible for […]

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has condemned a “serious accident” during the launch of a new warship on Thursday, calling it a “criminal act” that could not be tolerated. Parts of the 5,000-ton destroyer’s bottom were crushed, tipping the

Getty Images A parliamentary committee ruled that the haka could have “intimidated” other lawmakers A New Zealand parliamentary committee has proposed that three Māori MPs be suspended from parliament for their protest haka during a sitting last year. Opposition MP

Some families of those killed in a Jeju Air plane crash last December have filed a criminal complaint against 15 people, including South Korea’s transport minister and the airline’s CEO, for professional negligence. The 72 bereaved relatives are calling for

Silvano Hajid BBC Indonesian EPA Critics warn that changes to Indonesia’s military law could return Indonesia to the dark days of Suharto’s military dictatorship regime Indonesia’s parliament has passed controversial changes to legislation that will allow its military a bigger

EPA Steve Lodge, whose father Robert Lodge was a correspondent at VOA, stands in protest in front of the organisation’s headquarters in Washington DC Chinese state media has welcomed Donald Trump’s move to cut public funding for news outlets Voice

China’s biggest hotpot chain Haidilao has offered to compensate more than 4,000 diners who visited one of its Shanghai branches, where two teens urinated into their hotpot broth. A video of the boys peeing into their broth pot while dining

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong is the latest to criticise a US influencer whose video of herself taking a wild baby wombat away from its distressed mother has angered conservationists. “I think everyone who would have seen that would have

New Zealand has fired its most senior envoy to the United Kingdom over remarks that questioned US President Donald Trump’s grasp of history. At an event in London on Tuesday, High Commissioner Phil Goff compared efforts to end the war

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood James Harrison with his grandson, Trey, in an earlier picture One of the world’s most prolific blood donors – whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2 million babies – has died. James Harrison died