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Newly-appointed Commander of First Escort Division of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Ryoko Azuma (2nd L), who is the first female commander of a navy destroyer squadron in Japan, salutes …

Renowned South Korean Ko Un attends a news conference on his new collection of poems in Seoul South Korea‘s capital has closed an exhibition by poet Ko Un, long the …

Chung Eui-yong, head of the presidential National Security Office, Suh Hoon, chief of the South’s National Intelligence Service, and other members of South Korean delegation pose before boarding an aircraft …

A Vietnamese soldier keeps watch in front of US aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson after its arrival at a port in Danang, Vietnam A US aircraft carrier arrived in Vietnam …

Zafar Iqbal Bangladeshi police arrested three men on Sunday as they investigate a knife attack on Zafar Iqbal, a popular author and professor of computer science and engineering. Police said …

File photo: South Korean President Moon Jae-in receives a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Yo Jong in a meeting held at his office Cheong Wa …

The US is due to start joint military exercises with South Korea in early April North Korea threatened on Saturday to “counter the US” if the United States holds joint …

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during during a peace and security cooperation conference in Kabul, Afghanistan Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political group …

North Korea must heed the call by major powers to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and allow peace to take root on the divided peninsula, South Korea’s foreign …

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit 194 km (120 miles) northwest of Ambon in eastern Indonesia on Monday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was …