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DILI, East Timor (AP) — When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it appeared that the global clergy sexual abuse scandal that has compromised the Catholic Church’s credibility around the world had finally arrived in Asia’s newest country.
More Australians view opposition leader Peter Dutton’s stance on banning Gaza refugees as a necessary national security measure rather than a political ploy, a new poll has shown, underscoring the growing public anxiety over immigration and its impact on national unity.
Pacific island leaders endorsed a landmark regional policing plan on Wednesday at a summit in Tonga, a contentious move seen as trying to limit China’s security role in the region.
DILI, East Timor (AP) — When Pope Francis makes his trip to Asia’s newest country, East Timor, it will make him the second pope to visit after John Paul in 1989, and the first since the country gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) said on Tuesday it would start preliminary research on including wage-related items in its quarterly "tankan" business survey to more accurately reflect wage trends in the country's monetary policy.
Australia has become the latest country to allow employees the "right to disconnect" from work, a measure that has so far been implemented mostly in European nations.
NEW YORK -- Beijing needs to fully review the "problematic laws and policies" in China's Xinjiang region that have raised concerns of rights abuses, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday, four days before the two-year anniversary of a critical report by the agency.
SEOUL -- The Bank of Korea on Tuesday called for an overhaul in South Korea's hypercompetitive university entrance exam, linking it to the rapid decline in the country's birth rate and the concentration of people in Seoul.