PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha has shot down the controversial proposal to set up a new national oil company as envisioned in an amendment to Petroleum Act which is due for a vote in the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) tomorrow. Prayut...
Rampant illegal logging and the conversion of protected forests around the upstream area of the Batang Ayumi River are being blamed for flash floods that left five people dead in Padang Sidempuan regency, North Sumatra. The director of the Indonesian...
Like a ghastly scene from a horror movie, the horrified men sliced open a giant snake's belly to unravel the whole body of a man it had swallowed alive the night before. The Indonesian villagers already had a hunch about...
Hong Kong's first sludge treatment facility has started to offer waste-powered spa services that locals can use for free, footage filmed on Tuesday shows. The plant's Environmental Education Centre (EEC) manager Alvin Cheung explained that their plant is "handling all...
Can you believe it? Clint Eastwood is in his late 80s. Compared to him, Rodrigo Duterte, also known as "Duterte Harry," the controversial strongman president of the Philippines, is a spring chicken. He turns 72 Tuesday. But nine months, 8,000 body bags (and...
HONG KONG - Fosun International Ltd , one of China's most aggressively acquisitive conglomerates, said late on Tuesday that its co-founder and chief executive would step down in a broader reshuffle announced alongside annual earnings. The leisure-to-insurance group, one of...
If ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye is arrested this week, she will be sent to a solitary cell where she will be expected to rise at 6:30 a.m. and go to bed by 9 p.m. The only privilege she...
Bangkok - Thai tax officials slapped ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra with a US$500 million (S$696 million) bill on Tuesday, resurrecting a dispute at the centre of the kingdom's decade-long political rift. The controversy centres around whether Thaksin, who currently...
An attractive 29-year-old Filipino businesswoman, who underwent multiple plastic surgeries in one go, died after the procedures on Sunday (March 26). The Philippine Star reported that Shiryl Saturnino went under the knife for breast and butt enhancement as well as...
Budding vlogger, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo posted his latest YouTube video on Monday. Titled #JokowiMenjawab (Jokowi Answers), the video contains a question and answer (Q&A) session, which was announced on the president's official Facebook on February 18. Dedicated for youngsters...
