The US military started moving parts of the controversial THAAD anti-missile defence system to a deployment site in South Korea on Wednesday amid high tensions over North Korea's missile and nuclear programs. Washington and Pyongyang have been ratcheting up pressure...
SHANGHAI - Air China will increase its flights between Beijing and the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, from early May, after it cancelled some flights this month because of what it said was weak demand. China's national airline said on April...
A forest ranger was forced to jump off a roof to avoid being attacked by a leopard in India last week. According to India Express, a leopard wandered into the Kuruli village in the Kantabanji forest area of Odisha, terrifying...
Seoul - Nuclear-armed North Korea on Tuesday marked a military anniversary with a conventional firing drill, reports said, as the South announced joint naval exercises with a US aircraft carrier in the flashpoint region. Speculation had mounted that Pyongyang could...
A chat with a police friend about young, part-time prostitutes turned into a nightmare for one mother after she found that one of the girls available for sex was her own daughter, who later revealed how she had been lured...
Tarit Pengdit, former head of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), has been dismissed from state service for being unusually rich - and there is no way he can appeal against his punishment, senior government officials said yesterday. The prime minister's...
The man behind an alleged scam to cheat several lecturers and former lecturers of the Chulalongkorn University (CU) out of at least Bt1.4billion had just Bt5,000 in his bank accounts, an informed source disclosed on Monday. The source said it...
BEIJING - Efforts to tackle water pollution in China remain uneven with some areas worsening in 2016, while heavy metals and other pollutants continued to accumulate in Chinese soil, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said. In a yearly work report,...
As the HIV/AIDS epidemic begins to hit more young Chinese, the nation's health and education authorities are installing vendor machines selling home HIV test kits on university campuses to help raise awareness and fight the disease. To date, 10 Chinese...
The Jakarta gubernatorial election may have demonstrated how frail the government's coalition can become when its rivals play the sectarianism card hard. Backed by all seven government coalition parties except the National Mandate Party (PAN), the incumbent Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja...
