BANGKOK: Thai police have arrested an American who fled a 25-year jail sentence in the US for kidnapping, sex trafficking, and other crimes, officers said on Tuesday.

TAGULANDANG: An Indonesian volunteer returns from a dangerous rescue mission to a remote island where a volcano recently unleashed huge eruptions, cradling an abandoned, emaciated dog covered in burn blisters.

JAKARTA: A 41-year-old man in West Java allegedly murdered his wife, and tried to sell her body parts as “meat” to other villagers, detikJogja reported.

JAKARTA: Kementerian Perdagangan Indonesia mengarahkan semua rumah sembelih ayam supaya mendapatkan pensijilan halal mulai Oktober ini bagi memastikan kualiti produk ayam itik yang dikeluarkan. .

SULAWESI: A flood and a landslide have hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 people, according to officials.

MANILA: The prospect of being ordered arrested this year by the International Criminal Court doesn’t worry former president Rodrigo Duterte, as any arrest warrant the UN-backed ICC might issue would be “worthless and useless,” his camp said.

JAKARTA: The Indonesian government is evacuating 9,083 residents from Tagulandang Island, near Mount Ruang in North Sulawesi which is erupting, to safer areas.

MANILA: Fourth-grader Ella Araza sat on a tiny plastic box in her Manila slum home, trying to finish her homework before the afternoon sun sent temperatures soaring to unbearable levels.

YANGON: Myanmar’s junta has suspended the issuing of permits for men to work abroad, it said, weeks after introducing a military conscription law that led to thousands trying to leave the country.

MANILA: The Philippines’ foreign affairs department said Thursday it summoned a senior Chinese embassy official over the “harassment of Philippine vessels” in the South China Sea.