First-time visitors to Shuibei village in Shenzhen, southern Guangdong province, may be a little disconcerted by the sight that greets them. That's because the dilapidated six-story buildings that line both sides of its narrow street seem at odds with Shuibei's...
Columbia University alumnus Hongli Lan will have no choice but to leave the United States if he loses the H-1B visa lottery again this year. The young Chinese quantitative analyst, who says he graduated in 2014 with a master's degree...
DHAKA - A young Bangladeshi girl diagnosed with a rare condition known as "tree man syndrome" has left hospital, her father told AFP Monday (Mar 27), saying he feared she would never be cured. Surgeons operated on Sahana Khatun last...
TOKYO - A Vietnamese man held in a solitary cell at an immigration detention centre in Japan died on Saturday, raising fresh questions over the monitoring of individuals in the country's detention system. The man died at the East Japan Immigration...
GORONTALO, INDONESIA - Indonesian toddler Salsa Djafar was wearing a glittering golden crown decorated with ribbons and a shiny purple dress to mark a special occasion - her circumcision day. At the celebrations attended by relatives, shrieks filled the modest, yellow-walled...
NEW DELHI - Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India plans to seal international borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh soon. "India is planning to seal the international boundaries with Pakistan and Bangladesh as soon as possible. This could be...
Tepid participation of residents in Luzon, despite enthusiastic participation by people in the Visayas and Mindanao, resulted in power plants working more during Earth Hour on Saturday than they were in last year's 60-minute power switch-off campaign. Earth Hour is...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong protest leaders said on Monday that police intend to charge at least nine activists, including students and academics, who helped organise or lead Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in 2014. News of the move to charge...
Malacañang on Monday said President Rodrigo Duterte would likely spend his 72nd birthday on March 28 away from the public eye. "Traditionally, the President marks his birthday quietly without fanfare," Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a statement. "He spends some...
There are no words for the unjust killings and unlawful actions the current administration has committed under the helm of its so-called war on drugs. Since President Duterte's inauguration, the body count has gone up to 7,000 and still counting. How...
