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In this Nov. 26, 2013, photo, computer screens display a map showing the outline of China's new air defense zone in the East China on the website of the Chinese Ministry of Defense, in Beijing. While the Obama administration is making diplomatic progress on some of the MideastÃ?s thorniest security issues, problems are piling up in Asia, a region that President Barack Obama had wanted to play a bigger part in American foreign policy. Despite efforts to forge deeper ties with China to make East Asia more stable, BeijingÃ?s declaration of a maritime air defense zone has escalated its territorial dispute with U.S. ally Japan. The U.S. responded by flying B-52 bombers through the zone on a training mission Tuesday without informing Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

News

Problems pile up in Asia for US policymakers

Associated Press, Matthew Pennington -

November 27, 2013 6:32 pm

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2009 photo shows village malaria worker Phoun Sokha, 47, showing his malaria medicine kit at O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless. This time, scientists have confirmed the first signs of resistance to the only affordable treatment left in the global medicine cabinet for malaria: Artemisinin. U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually. The report warns that could be a health catastrophe in the making, as no alternative anti-malarial drug is on the horizon. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

Healthcare

Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia

Associated Press, Matthew Pennington -

November 12, 2013 5:00 am

A South Korean man watches a television news program showing Korean American Kenneth Bae at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 2, 2013. Bae detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for

US calls for NKorea amnesty for sentenced American

Sam Kim, Matthew Pennington -

May 2, 2013 4:00 am

A South Korean army soldier stands guard at a military post at Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. North Korea successfully fired a long-range rocket on Wednesday, defying international warnings as the regime of Kim Jong Un took a big step forward in its quest to develop a nuclear missile. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

NKorea still years away from reliable missiles

Foster Klug, Matthew Pennington -

December 13, 2012 5:00 am