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Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making "online insults" punishable by imprisonment amid rising public concern over cyberbullying sparked by the suicide of a reality television star who had faced social media abuse.

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Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Sunday accused the United States of being a "bully" and "hijacking" countries around the region, during a combative speech in which he said his country would "fight to the very end" to stop Taiwanese independence.

Thailand on Thursday became the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis -- but tough penalties will still apply to those who use the drug to get high, according to the minister who spearheaded the change.

It's a busy Saturday morning for Jeong Kwan, a South Korean Buddhist monk.

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Singapore says it is facing a dengue "emergency" as it grapples with an outbreak of the seasonal disease that has come unusually early this year.

South Korea and the United States responded to North Korea's launch of eight missiles Sunday by firing eight more missiles into waters off the east coast of the Korean peninsula Monday morning.

Six decades after first sailing alone from Japan to the United States, Kenichi Horie is due to become the oldest yachtsman to make a solo nonstop sailing across the Pacific.

Mohammad Jalehar was a teenager in the 1990s when he heard warnings about looming food and water shortages in Singapore.

More than one billion methamphetamine pills were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, a record figure that the United Nations says highlights a "staggering" increase in the regional synthetic drug trade.