East Asia Pacific

Less than 200 remain at the besieged Hong Kong campus

South Korean lawmakers have said US officials had demanded up to $5 billion a year, more than five times the 1.04 trillion won ($896 million) Seoul agreed to pay this year for hosting 28,500 troops

Students flee besieged campus; police have used tear gas and made arrests

Pyongyang is upset over a UN resolution condemning the human rights situation in its country

Battle over Chinese telecom giant has also landed squarely in the middle of US President Trump's trade battle with Beijing

Malaysia is edging toward new deal with Dhaka to lift a ban imposed on migrant workers from Bangladesh more than a year ago over concerns that recruitment agencies were driving them into forced labor

19-year old Kumanjayi Walker was shot dead in remote Indigenous settlement of Yuendumu, 300 kilometers north-west of Alice Springs in Central Australia