Asia Pacific
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Protesters march in Kuala Lampur just hours after activists and opposition leaders were arrested in a government crackdown
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Pacific leaders are warned ‘protectionist tendencies are taking over’ in the US amid fears for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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The PM is clearly punting that Trump will turn out to be Ronald Reagan lite rather than a deranged despot. But cosying up to the US president-elect is a big, bold calculation and the stakes could not be higher for Australia
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The upgraded airstrip on Spratly Island would be able to handle combat aircraft, US-based analysts say
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Trump and nuclear proliferation: ‘The importance of this issue to our security is clear'
Brendan Thomas-NooneTrump calls into question what has been a bipartisan policy in the US for the last 70 years: the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons -
Jakarta says is cannot be expected to have protected sunken second world war warships destroyed by illegal scavenging
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Senator calls for travel ban and asset freeze against those behind snatching of booksellers amid fears Donald Trump will ignore Chinese human rights abuses
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Australian Sara Connor and her British boyfriend Taylor are facing trial over death of police officer Wayan Sudarsa
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Army convoy brings supplies for stricken South Island town, while navy ship berths in Christchurch carrying hundreds of evacuees
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A small monkey found abandoned in China’s eastern Jiangxi province has made a new family with a farmer’s herd of goats
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Frank Bainimarama calls on Donald Trump to make a ‘personal change of heart and public change of policy on climate change’ at the United Nations climate conference in Morocco
From the agencies Sumatran orangutans in rehab – in pictures