A least one person was killed in a storm that swept across Japan on Tuesday, according to local reports.

Australia is looking to encourage skilled American workers to fill jobs in the country’s mining and gas sectors.

Burma was a happy country on Sunday, with crowds of people singing and dancing in the streets, celebrating the expected victory of the opposition National League for Democracy [...]

Fiji on Sunday declared a state of emergency as floods inundated the Pacific island nation.

A fire-stricken cruise ship with around 1,000 people on board arrived in Malaysia on Sunday for repairs.

Radiation levels inside a reactor at Japan’s beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi power plant has reached lethal levels.

A U.S. official said on Wednesday that North Korea will not receive 240,000 tons of food aid because it is insisting on carrying out a rocket launch.

Burma will receive 159 international monitors for its elections that are to take place next week—the first time in the history of the once-isolated Southeast Asian nation.

Depending on how things go with April 1’s by-elections in Burma, it may nudge Western governments closer or further away from lifting sanctions on the previously hard-line [...]

Japan on Monday pulled the plug on its second-to-last nuclear power plant.