By STEVEN SIMON and DANIEL BENJAMINFEB. 24, 2017 CreditVictor Kerlow The new point man for the Trump administration’s counter-jihadist team is Sebastian Gorka, an itinerant instructor in the doctrine of irregular warfare and former …
PUTRAJAYA: Former Education Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Dr Madinah Mohamad will be the new Auditor-General, effective Thursday (Feb 23). Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa said Madinah would take over …
KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali appeared to have forgiven former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for all the attacks he made against the opposition during his 21-year premiership. …
PEKAN: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has warned of peddlers of “fake news” who seek to undermine and destroy the country. Najib said that falsehoods masquerading as “news” are an insidious attack that …
By JESSICA DONATI and EHSANULLAH AMIRI Feb. 24, 2017 5:30 a.m. ET MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan—A new railway between China and Afghanistan, part of Beijing’s Silk Road initiative to promote regional trade, has run into roadblocks …
February 23 saw the sixteenth meeting of the joint intergovernmental commission on bilateral cooperation between Uzbekistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the framework of the visit of Kazakhstan’s delegation to Uzbekistan, headed by …
Airport camera footage released on Monday by Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV shows the moment they assaulted Kim Jong Nam. In later clips he is seen asking airport officials for medical help, and rubbing his …
Malaysia said on Saturday it would issue an arrest warrant for a North Korean diplomat wanted for questioning over the murder of Kim Jong Nam if he doesn’t voluntarily cooperate with the police. “Reasonable” …
By Clare Baldwin and Neil Jerome Morales | MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs had until three weeks ago driven the trade in crystal methamphetamine underground, according to residents and drug users …
By TREFOR MOSS Feb. 22, 2017 11:13 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS SHANGHAI—A Shanghai shipyard will build the first oceangoing cruise ships ever constructed in China, as the global cruise industry chases surging Chinese demand …