The Thai navy says at least four boys of a group of 12 and their soccer coach have been rescued from the cave where they had been trapped for over two weeks. “The fourth Wild Boar is out of the cave,” the navy said in a Facebook post, referring to the name of the boys’ […]
BANGKOK — A Thai diver died after running out of air while assisting in the rescue of 12 boys and their football coach trapped inside the Tham Luang in Northern Thailand, an official said Friday. Samarn Poonan, a former member of Thailand’s elite navy SEAL unit, died Thursday night after entering the cave to lay air […]
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has ended the first of two days of talks Friday in North Korea about ending Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.The meetings come amid reports of American intelligence assessments that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is continuing to develop the infrastructure for his nuclear program.Discussions resume Saturday. Pompeo has been […]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — A trade deal with the European Union expected to be ratified this year will accelerate growth of Vietnam’s export-reliant economy without help from the U.S. market, analysts say. The European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement signed in 2015 should speed annual economic growth by half a percent to more than 7 percent by 2019, […]