Asia

N.Y. Daily News: U.S. Immigration officials ease immigration rules for Filipinos in the wake of killer typhoon

N.Y. Daily News: U.S. Immigration officials ease immigration rules for Filipinos in the wake of killer typhoon

Washington Examiner · November 25, 2013 5:00 am

This 2005 photo provided by the Palo Alto Weekly shows Merrill Newman, a retired finance executive and Red Cross volunteer, in Palo Alto, Calif. An 85-year-old American veteran of the Korean War has been detained in North Korea since last month. The son of MerrillÃÂ Newman told the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday his father was taken off a plane set to leave North Korea on Oct. 26. Jeffrey Newman said no reason was given. (AP Photo/Palo Alto Weekly, Nicholas Wright)

National Security

North Korea detains 85-year-old US war veteran, son says

Associated Press · November 21, 2013 5:00 am

US Air Force 535th Airlift Squadron crew aid a handicapped typhoon victim into a tightly packed C-17 aircraft for an evacuation at the airport in Tacloban, Philippines, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.

Wally Santana/AP

National Security

Christian Science Monitor: US-Philippines military ties bolster typhoon relief work

Washington Examiner · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2009 photo shows village malaria worker Phoun Sokha, 47, showing his malaria medicine kit at O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless. This time, scientists have confirmed the first signs of resistance to the only affordable treatment left in the global medicine cabinet for malaria: Artemisinin. U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually. The report warns that could be a health catastrophe in the making, as no alternative anti-malarial drug is on the horizon. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia

Associated Press and Matthew Pennington · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

US Treasury chief visits Asia next week

US Treasury chief visits Asia next week

Washington Examiner · November 8, 2013 5:42 pm

Interest in the Arctic is higher today than ever. Covering one-sixth of the world's land mass and vast expanses of sea, it contains a wealth of untapped resources from minerals like rare earths and uranium to gushers of oil and natural resources. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

America is leaving itself out in the Arctic cold

James Jay Carafano · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks about the the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington. The president said he told House Speaker John Boehner he's willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of "economic chaos." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Chinese ‘don’t mind’ my absence on Asia trip

Brian Hughes · October 8, 2013 4:00 am

The White House was under pressure â even from members of his own party -- to scrap an overseas trip. (Julia Schmalz/Bloomberg)

Obama cancels week-long Asia trip as government shutdown continues

Susan Crabtree · October 3, 2013 4:00 am

Secretary of State John Kerry, left, will be taking the place of President Obama for two of the four stops on his planned trip to Asia. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama under pressure to scrap Asia trip

Susan Crabtree · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

Obama shortens Asia trip amid government shutdown

Obama shortens Asia trip amid government shutdown

Meghashyam Mali · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama prepares to make a statement on the ongoing budget battle from the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. Obama is ramping up pressure on Republicans to avoid a post-midnight government shutdown. He says a shutdown would hurt the economy and hundreds of thousands of government workers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House: Obama’s Asia trip still on despite shutdown

Susan Crabtree · September 30, 2013 4:00 am

Obama Pivots to Asia, Announces Trip to Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Obama Pivots to Asia, Announces Trip to Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Daniel Halper · September 13, 2013 4:00 pm