A Chinese firm is giving a new spin to the saying "sleeping on the job", as it is offering applicants 100,000 yuan (S$20,000) a year to be a professional sleeper. The job has been dubbed "the world's most comfortable job"...
Ko Oi-sum's simple village home on the northwestern edge of Hong Kong is surrounded by trees planted by her mother - she dries the leaves to make tea, espousing their health benefits. But this ramshackle rural community of narrow alleyways,...
Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said on Monday that the government is considering taking the recent incident involving a UK cruise vessel, the MV Caledonian Sky, to an international tribunal as the company announced it would settle the...
Arif Budi Sulistyo, the brother-in-law of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, appeared in court on Monday to testify in the bribery trial of Ramapanicker Rajamohanan Nair, a businessman accused of paying a bribe to a middle-ranking tax official, Handang Soekarno. Arif,...
A controversial new casino alleged to be sited on overlapping territory between Thailand and Cambodia is actually located in Cambodia, 300 metres from the Thai border, and not in Ta Phraya National Park, the chief of the National Parks...
At least a hundred monkeys climbed down a hill to cool off in a pool of water at Wat Tham Sue in Krabi on Sunday. Krabi has not seen rain for about two months and this particular area has experienced...
A team of Chinese scientists in Chongqing have developed a method to match a blood type within two minutes, according to a paper published in an international medical journal. Blood typing is important for pregnancies, transfusions and transplants, but at...
SEOUL - Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-Hye reported to prosecutors Tuesday for questioning over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down, after using executive privilege to avoid them for months while in office. Park apologised...
One in four Filipinos has high blood pressure, and half of that number do not know they are hypertensive. An estimated 200,000 deaths annually can be attributed directly or indirectly to high blood pressure. This was cited during a forum at...
A Chinese wedding comes with lots of perks: cash from the guests and often a dowry from the bride's family and a house from the groom's. But in Beijing there is another reason to marry: a license plate. Millions can...
