BANGKOK - Hoards of revellers armed with plastic water guns poured onto Thai streets on Friday (April 14) for a second day of watery warfare to ring in the kingdom's traditional new year. Known as Songkran, the Thai holiday is...
Pyongyang - The penthouse apartments at the top of the tallest tower in Pyongyang's showpiece development offer impressive views, ice green wallpaper and purple sofas - but had no hot water when the project opened Thursday. Ryomyong Street is the...
Doha - With more than a million Filipino workers spread across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, it is small wonder that President Rodrigo Duterte has undertaken a week-long tour of the Gulf. The migrants have been drawn to the region...
A recent phenomenon on the streets of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong has raised eyebrows and confused stares: Young foreign backpackers begging for money to fund their epic trips in the region. These 'beg-packers' are also buskering by playing music...
Hundreds of thousands of young men have reported for conscription since the beginning of this month. And among them were some "beautiful" transvestites, who turned many heads at respective military units. This year, the Armed Forces plan to recruit 103,097 conscripts. Read...
TAIPEI, TAIWAN - The amendment of Taiwan's animal protection laws Tuesday, especially the ban on the consumption of cats and dogs, has generated a lot of discussions in Taiwan and abroad. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, some of it was misinformed. News articles...
An increasing number of families in the United States are turning to Chinese nannies, whose language skills may be one of the reasons that make them a better option. For Chinese immigrant families, nannies who speak Mandarin can help pass...
Victims of an alleged tour scam told about differing methods used to lure them into paying for a trip to Japan that never happened. They were among more than 1,000 people who have been stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport for the past...
Prime Minister Prayut Cha-o-cha has ordered a probe into a company that left some 2,000 tourists stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday night after they had paid for a trip to Japan. The tourists were left waiting at the airport...
The first day of the week-long road accident monitoring period for the Songkran holiday from Tuesday to next Monday, saw 33 deaths and 420 injuries in 409 road accidents nationwide, according to the Road Safety Directing Centre. The number of...
