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Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi Expected To Win Myanmar's First Free Election in 25 Years
Melissa Cronin · 11/08/15 02:59PMAsia Commemorates Ten-Year Anniversary of Indian Ocean Tsunami
Dayna Evans · 12/26/14 10:50AMOn December 26, 2004, a tsunami struck dozens of countries around the Indian Ocean rim, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 228,000 people. Ten years on, countries around Asia commemorated the anniversary by holding prayer and memorial services for the near quarter million lives taken by the natural disaster.
Adam Weinstein · 05/05/14 10:24AM
Monster Typhoon Among History's Largest, Strongest Storms Ever
Ken Layne · 11/07/13 04:01PMThe monstrous storm seen in this new satellite image is the biggest of the year and one of the most powerful tropical cyclones of all time. "Super typhoon" Haiyan is currently thrashing the entirety of the Philippines with sustained winds of 190 mph and gusts up to 230 mph, and then it's headed for Vietnam. It's such a wildly dangerous storm that it's even terrifying the weather forecasters.
Lacey Donohue · 10/03/13 09:37PM
According to a statement from White House press secretary Jay Carney, President Obama has now canceled his upcoming trip to Asia: "The president made this decision based on the difficulty in moving forward with foreign travel in the face of a shutdown, and his determination to continue pressing his case that Republicans should immediately allow a vote to reopen the government."
Ninety Percent of South East Asian Schoolchildren Are Nearsighted
Louis Peitzman · 05/05/12 04:53PMResearchers have concluded that up to 90 percent of students leaving school in major South East Asian cities are suffering from myopia — the fancy term for when things look fuzzy at a distance. According to Professor Ian Morgan, who conducted the study, the average used to be between 20 and 30 percent.
Barack Obama Hates Wearing This Goddamn Indonesian Silly Shirt
Jim Newell · 11/18/11 04:59PMPresident Obama and fellow Pacific leaders didn't don any "silly shirts" — a.k.a. "festive local garb" — at last week's APEC conference in Hawaii, breaking from the conference's proud tradition of dressing powerful global leaders in clown costumes. "I got rid of the Hawaiian shirts because I looked at pictures of some of the previous APEC meetings," he explained, "and... I thought this may be a tradition that we might want to break." The War on Fun never ends with this guy. Fortunately, his hosts at his latest stop in Bali have forced him to wear a silly shirt anyway.