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Park Yu-ha, a professor at Sejong University, speaks to reporters outside  Seoul High Court today  after being  found  guilty of defaming former “comfort women”. Photograph: Kyodo News via Getty Images Academic convicted of defaming wartime sex slaves in Korea
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 27, 2017, 15:31

Prof Park Yu-ha said not all ‘comfort women’ were forced into brothels

US secretary of defence James Mattis with South Korean defence minister Song Young-moo at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Korean  Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on Friday. Photograph: Jeon Heon-Kyun-Pool/Getty Images Pentagon chief says US goal in North Korea is diplomacy, not war
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 27, 2017, 14:10

James Mattis says North Korean nuclear weapons ‘threaten others with catastrophe’

Barnaby Joyce  in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/Reuters Canberra in crisis as deputy PM ruled ineligible for parliament
  • Pádraig Collins
  • October 27, 2017, 08:52

Barnaby Joyce’s position was thrown into doubt earlier this year over dual citizenship

President Higgins arrived in New Zealand on Tuesday and met the recently-elected Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern the day before she was officially sworn in. Photograph:  Robert Kitchin  Pool/Getty Images President honours Irishmen who died in New Zealand earthquake
  • Jessica McAllen
  • October 26, 2017, 20:27

Michael D Higgins praises John Joseph O’Connor and Owen McKenna and their families

Police officers and rescuers inspect the site of an explosion at a firecracker factory in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta. Photograph: Tatan Syuflana/AP At least 47 dead following explosions at Indonesian fireworks factory
  • October 26, 2017, 12:38

Dozens injured in Tangerang district of Jakarta following two explosions and fire

Jacinda Ardern has outlined an ambitious environmental agenda which includes planting 100 million trees each year. Photographer: Mark Coote/Bloomberg New Zealand swears in its youngest prime minister in 150 years
  • October 26, 2017, 09:43

Jacinda Ardern has promised to make significant changes in the nation of nearly 5m people

The Royal Urn is carried in the Royal Chariot. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images Thailand grieves in elaborate final goodbye to king
  • October 26, 2017, 07:06

No selfies allowed as tens of thousands watch Bhumibol’s urn move to crematorium

Kim Jong-un visits the Command of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army in an unknown location in this undated photo released  by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency. File photograph: KCNA via Reuters N Korea’s hydrogen bomb threat should be taken ‘literally’– diplomat
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 26, 2017, 06:39

Sabre-rattling intensifies ahead of Trump’s visit to Asia in early November

Chinese president and member of the standing committee of the Politburo Xi Jinping: “We must continue to rid ourselves of any virus that erodes the party’s fabric.” Photograph: How  Hwee Young/EPA Xi Jinping's elevated status on display after China congress power play
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 25, 2017, 18:17

Focusing on Xi, Chinese communists seem to be moving from collective leadership era

 A  mourner holds a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the area of the Royal Crematorium near the Grand Palace in Bangkok. Photograph: Diego Azubel/EPA Thailand begins lavish funeral for king who died last year
  • October 25, 2017, 13:11

Five day funeral of King Bhumibol expected to draw 250,000 mourners and cost €76m

A Rohingya woman and her child return to the Basara camp for internally displaced people in Sittwe, the provincial capital of Rakhine state in Myanmar, on October  1st. Photograph: Adam Dean/The New York Times Across Myanmar, denial of ethnic cleansing and loathing of Rohingya
  • Hannah Beech
  • October 25, 2017, 12:45

Foreign critics and aid agencies are blamed for taking sides with the largely stateless Muslim group

Han Zheng, Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Wang Yang and Zhao Leji greet the media at the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday in Beijing. Photograph:  How Hwee Young/EPA Chinese president strengthens position with new leadership line-up
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 25, 2017, 08:42

Absence of successor on panel raises prospect of president staying beyond 2020

Pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law after being granted bail in Hong Kong. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters Hong Kong frees two pro-democracy activists on bail
  • October 24, 2017, 16:39

Joshua Wong and Nathan Law convicted of protests leading to ‘Umbrella Movement’

Chinese president Xi Jinping at the closing of the 19th Communist Party congress.  What Xi is doing, and why his philosophy has joined the top three with Mao and Deng, is heralding a “new era” of Chinese history. Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images A victory for China’s leader – but what is ‘Xi Jinping Thought’?
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 24, 2017, 16:13

With his theory accepted into the constitution, the president’s hand will be on everything

Painted portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and late communist leader Mao Zedong at a market in Beijing. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images Xi Jinping becomes most powerful Chinese leader since Mao
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 24, 2017, 09:18

‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism’ enshrined in constitution at Communist Party congress

Rohingya refugee children carry supplies through Balukhali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, October 23, 2017. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters Myanmar urged to accept safe return of one million Rohingyas
  • October 23, 2017, 19:31

Bangladesh tells UN burden of refugee crisis has become ‘untenable’ on its territory

Li Ganjie,  China’s minister for the environment: has promised a “fundamental improvement” in the environment by 2035. Photograph: Wu Hong/EPA China will meet air pollution goals by 2035, says minister
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 23, 2017, 19:23

Cost of China’s economic expansion has been a stark rise in environmental degradation

Flame rises from damaged buildings after government troops cleared the area from pro-Islamic State militant groups inside a war-torn area in Marawi city, southern Philippines on Monday. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters Philippines declares battle with Islamist rebels over in Marawi
  • October 23, 2017, 09:59

Combat operations in fierce urban war ended after last pro-Isis rebel gunmen killed

Souvenir plates with images of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong and Chinese President Xi Jinping in a shop during the congress of the Communist Party. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters China’s Xi Jinping may omit key cadres from top leadership
  • Clifford Coonan
  • October 23, 2017, 02:04

Reports say leading candidates unlikely to win promotion at Communist Party congress

Shinzo Abe has been returned as Japan’s prime minister and is on course to become the country’s longest-serving leader since the second World War. Photograph: Bloomberg Japanese voters return prime minister Shinzo Abe to power
  • David McNeill
  • October 22, 2017, 20:54

Abe on course to become the nation’s longest-serving leader since second World War

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