Controversial parts of a textbook for primary school students, including a story about Thomas Edison saving his mother, will be removed from a new edition for the autumn semester, according to its publishers. A Chinese-language textbook for Grade 2 students...
The selfless Filipino father at Jollibee has taken his daughters out for another meal of fast food. But this time, he didn't merely watch - he got to eat too! Ryan Arebuabo, 38, rose to online fame after he was...
HONG KONG - A Beijing-backed civil servant, Carrie Lam, was chosen to be Hong Kong's next leader on Sunday amid accusations that Beijing is meddling and denying the financial hub a more populist leader perhaps better able to defuse...
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's call for religious leaders and politicians not to mix religion and party politics has received a sceptical response from some quarters, with the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) dismissing the statement as the promotion of "secularism"...
TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- Taoyuan International Airport Corp Tseng Dar-jen pledged Sunday to address the rampant "fake taxi driver" problem outside the airport's arrival halls, after the situation was again brought to light by social media users. National Taiwan University professor Chang Hsueh-kung...
PATTAYA, Thailand - With mascots dressed as smiling fish and a police rock band, Thai authorities launched a "Happy Zone" at the weekend to improve the image of a city notorious for sex tourism. Stung by foreign headlines portraying the...
PATTAYA, Thailand - With mascots dressed as smiling fish and a police rock band, Thai authorities launched a "Happy Zone" at the weekend to improve the image of a city notorious for sex tourism. Stung by foreign headlines portraying the...
Min Xianjie has been caring for his mother for more than six years. The 29-year-old from Beishangzhuang village in Rizhao, Shandong province, helps her search for his older brother, who left home in 2006 and never returned. Min's mother has dementia,...
NEW DELHI - Several Indian airlines, including the country's biggest carrier IndiGo, on Friday proposed creating a no-fly list to ban unruly passengers, a day after a lawmaker admitted assaulting an official from state-owned carrier Air India. Air India and...
Shanghai doctor specializes in female-to-male sex change surgeries Doctor Zhao Yede has performed gender reassignment surgery on nearly 1,000 patients since he began practicing medicine in 1992. The 52-year-old native of East China's Zhejiang province has operated on patients ranging in...
