Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will honour war dead but won’t apologise when he becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor this month, a top government spokesman said yesterday,reports AFP. The move follows Barack Obama’s historic May trip to Hiroshima, the first by a sitting US…

Philippine police murdered a town mayor while he was helpless in a jail cell, justice department investigators said yesterday, contradicting claims by the accused and President Rodrigo Duterte that he was killed in a gun battle, reports AFP.The accusations by the National Bureau of Investigation deepened…

South Korea’s most powerful tycoons, including de facto Samsung chief Lee Jae-Yong, stammered and squirmed Tuesday under a verbal assault from a parliamentary committee probing a corruption scandal that has riveted the nation, reports AFP.Millions watched in astonishment as the televised hearing…

Yemeni authorities have arrested eight suspected Islamic State group jihadists implicated in a spate of attacks targeting security personnel in second city Aden this year, police said, reports AFP. Police in the southern port city, headquarters of Yemen's internationally recognised government, also…

South Korea’s military cyber command, set up to guard against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has said, reports BBC. A spokesman told the BBC that classified information was thought to have been stolen, although it is not clear exactly what data was accessed.…