December 3, 2015 Philippines Golan peacekeepers to stay for now The Philippines Wednesday said it would keep its peacekeepers in the Golan Heights until at least August, and may stay longer if the United Nations increased security there.
December 3, 2015 S. Korea's Posco scraps India steel project South Korean steel giant Posco said Tuesday it would scrap a $5.3 billion deal to build a steel plant in India because of delays and local opposition.
December 3, 2015 Thousands flee as Sumatra volcano erupts Thousands of villagers fled Sunday after a volcano erupted on Indonesia's Sumatra island spewing rocks and red-hot ash onto surrounding villages, officials said.
December 3, 2015 Malaysia to get Twentieth Century Fox theme park Malaysian casino operator Genting's resort unit will build a 400 million ringgit ($125 million) Twentieth Century Fox Theme Park near the capital Kuala Lumpur, it said Friday.
December 3, 2015 Heavy rain pummels flooded Philippines Torrential rain relentlessly battered the flood-soaked Philippine capital and surrounding farming areas on Tuesday, raising fears that the toll from monsoons which have killed three this week would climb higher.
December 3, 2015 Fukushima operator rebuked over nuclear restart plan The boss of Fukushima operator TEPCO on Friday met local leaders to ask for their blessing to restart the world's biggest nuclear plant after a public tongue-lashing for bypassing them this week.
December 3, 2015 Peru drug arrest women 'smuggling for our lives' Two British women caught in Peru with ??1.5 million worth of cocaine claim that Ibiza gangsters forced them at gunpoint into becoming drug mules, in comments published in Wednesday's Daily Mirror.
December 3, 2015 Thai court jails Iranian pair over Bangkok bomb plot Two Iranian men were sentenced to between 15 years and life Thursday for their parts in a botched bomb plot last year in Bangkok that ended with one of them having his legs blown off.
December 3, 2015 Philippine communists vow revenge for slain spokesman Communist insurgents Saturday promised revenge after Philippine soldiers killed their regional spokesmen along with seven other rebels in the latest operation against the militants since talks to end one of Asia's longest running insurgencies collapsed.
December 3, 2015 Peruvian drug traffickers prey on young Europeans The profile is often the same: European, often young and female, and facing hard economic choices.