Single crane cuts power across Vietnam
Over a third of Vietnam and parts of neighboring Cambodia plunged into darkness this week after a crane operator ...
Thai police arrest Italian wanted for human trafficking
Thai authorities have captured an Italian man wanted over suspected links to a human trafficking ring which defrauded $10 ...
“Series of irregularities” caused Bangladesh collapse
A government probe into the tragic collapse of a multi-storey factory building in Bangladesh has uncovered a series of ...
Uproar as Malaysia activist charged with sedition
Malaysian authorities have charged a student activist with sedition and detained three others, including two anti-government figures, in ...
Australia culls upto 10,000 wild horses in Outback
A huge cull targeting up to 10,000 wild horses in Australia's harsh Outback is reportedly underway, in what authorities ...
Indian baby recovering after life-saving surgery
Doctors said Wednesday they had successfully performed life-saving surgery on an Indian baby born with hydrocephalus, a rare disorder ...
North Korea sends ‘special envoy’ to China
North Korea has sent one of its top military official as Kim Jong-un's "special envoy" to Beijing, state media ...
UN sees progress but child soldiers remain in Myanmar
Myanmar has made significant progress in curbing the use of child soldiers, according to a UN report, but still ...
Children’s Day
Giant carp banners are popping up all over town, blowing in the wind. What’s going on? It’s the fifth day of the fifth month, otherwise known as Children’s Day. Formerly meant for boys (after all, girls have their own day), [...]
Hiker found alive after Philippines volcano eruption
A Thai national earlier reported missing after Mt. Mayon erupted, spewing rocks and ash, has been found alive in the volcano's rugged terrain as rescuers struggle to bring the recovered ...
Up to 300,000 one-day-old babies die each year in India
Newborn deaths in India account for 29% of the world's first-day deaths, with more than 300,000 babies succumbing to infections and other preventable causes within 24 hours of being born ...
China bans forced mental hospital detentions
China enforced a new law prohibiting citizens from being admitted to mental institutions without their consent in an attempt to crackdown on "forced detentions" allegedly used by those in power ...
Japan’s Uniqlo announces its largest global store in Shanghai
Just months after a Honda police car was upturned for being Japanese and shops across China were boarded up for fear of attack, a Japanese fashion chain has announced a ...
North Korea sends ‘special envoy’ to China
North Korea has sent one of its top military official as Kim Jong-un's "special envoy" to Beijing, state media ...
Dynamite factory blast leaves 13 dead, 20 missing
Rescuers are still searching for 20 missing people after a blast that ripped through an explosives factory in eastern ...
Philippines protest Chinese ships off islands
The Philippines has lodged a protest with Beijing over the "illegal" presence of a Chinese warship off a disputed ...
Japan to resume talks on N Korean abductions
Japan is gearing up to resume bilateral talks with North Korea in the hope of making progress on the ...
Japan votes to adopt child abduction treaty
Japan's parliament has voted to adopt an international treaty on child abductions, after decades of pressure from Western ...
S.Korea slams “unhelpful” Japanese visit to N. Korea
South Korea on Thursday criticized the trip of a top Japanese aide to Pyongyang as "unhelpful" amid tensions with ...
China denies renewed US cyber-attack accusations
Beijing has rejected a new US report claiming the Chinese army had sponsored cyber-attacks for economic and military gain and said the accusations could harm cooperation against the increasing global ...
Russia, Japan shelve World War II animosity
Russia and Japan have finally agreed to lay their wartime animosity to rest, with bilateral peace talks almost half a century after World War II. In the first top-level summit between ...
Indonesia to outlaw “black magic”
Indonesia is set to ban sorcery or "black magic" to curb anti-witch killings. Under proposed revisions to the Dutch colonial-era criminal code, Indonesia would make it illegal for anyone to ...
28,000 rivers vanish from Chinese map
About 28,000 rivers have disappeared from China’s state maps, an absence, reports the Times of London, seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the natural cost of developmental ...
Single crane cuts power across Vietnam
Over a third of Vietnam and parts of neighboring Cambodia plunged into darkness this week after a crane operator ...
Thai police arrest Italian wanted for human trafficking
Thai authorities have captured an Italian man wanted over suspected links to a human trafficking ring which defrauded $10 ...
“Series of irregularities” caused Bangladesh collapse
A government probe into the tragic collapse of a multi-storey factory building in Bangladesh has uncovered a series of ...
Australia culls upto 10,000 wild horses in Outback
A huge cull targeting up to 10,000 wild horses in Australia's harsh Outback is reportedly underway, in what authorities ...
South Korea intelligence involved in Australian spy case
Australia claims it has uncovered a South Korean spy ring attempting to obtain trade secrets as the two nations ...
Australian man faces terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia
An Australian man detained for almost 18 months faces terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia, officials have confirmed Thursday. Shayden ...
