TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he and US President Donald Trump had agreed to maintain close contact over North Korea, while demanding Pyongyang show restraint as tensions in the region rise. Abe told reporters after a...
SEOUL - Global K-pop star Psy will release a new full-length album in May, said his agency last Friday (April 21). "Psy has been preparing for the new album for a year. The exact date of release has not yet...
SEOUL - North Korea said yesterday that it was ready to sink a United States aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a US carrier group for drills in the Pacific Ocean. US President...
A man in his 50s died of toad toxin after eating a bullfrog dish that mistakenly included toads last month, it was revealed Friday. According to police, the 57-year-old man and two of his colleagues cooked and ate five bullfrogs...
Former President Park Geun-hye sold her home in downtown Seoul for 6.7 billion won (S$5.9 million) and purchased a new one in a quitter neighborhood on the southern edge of the capital, local media reported Friday. "The old house was...
MUMBAI - The "world's heaviest woman" has shed half her weight - around a quarter of a tonne - in the two months she's been in India for treatment, doctors said. Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighed 500kg...
SYDNEY - With a twist of lime and a dash of salt Sydney chef Nowshad Alam Rasel flavours a hot pan full of crickets, tossing them over a flaming stove. The savoury snack, which would not be out of place...
Four suspected drug traffickers have been arrested in a major crackdown on the biggest multinational crystal methamphetamine trafficking network in Thailand. The network has laundered their ill-gotten gains in 16 businesses in the South, including a hotel and entertainment venues,...
Residents of a village in Surat Thani's Phanom district believe they have found a footprint of the Lord Buddha preserved in limestone on a mountaintop. Sathaporn Saripat, head of Moo 1 village in Tambon Klong Sok, said the footprint was...
A child in China who jumped from about 10 storeys using an umbrella as a parachute miraculously survived, reports said. The seven-year-old jumped holding an umbrella after seeing a cartoon character parachute from a window doing the same thing. While his...
