Asia Pacific - NYTimes

1. Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation

2. Bloomberg Loses Landmark Libel Case in Singapore

3. China Purges Top Official Over Corruption and Sex Charges

4. In Bangkok Bar Blaze, Signs of Fatal Lapses Repeated Across the World

5. Deportations by India Cause Tension Along Border with Bangladesh

6. Trump’s Threat to Impose Fees in the Strait of Hormuz Contradicts His Aides

7. Fire in Bangkok Bar Was a Death Trap With Inaccessible Exits and Flammable Foam

8. Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Install Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Former President, as Leader

9. Sam Neill, New Zealand Actor Known for ‘Jurassic Park,’ Dies at 78

10. Japan Builds Intelligence Agency It Hasn’t Had Since World War II

11. Why Young People in China Are Buying Feelings

12. Fire in Bangkok Bar Leaves at Least 27 Dead

13. With Lindsey Graham Gone, Ukraine Loses an Ally in Trump’s Ear

14. How Trump Failed to Secure the Strait of Hormuz in His Iran Deal

15. Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost

16. Typhoon Bavi Hits China, Causing Evacuations, Floods and Flight Delays

17. As India Erases Its Colonial Past, Delhi’s Elite Feel Targeted

18. How Putin Turned Japan Into a Den of Spies

19. 15 Killed as Speedboat Capsizes in Vietnam

20. ‘They Don’t Need People’: The Workers Left Behind by China’s Robot Drive