JAKARTA - Indonesia said Monday it would continue to send domestic helpers overseas, in an about-turn welcomed by campaigners who said it would help prevent women falling prey to human trafficking. Thousands of Indonesian women travel to places like Hong...
BANGKOK - A 25-year-old sea turtle in Thailand slipped into a coma on Sunday after an operation to remove 915 coins from her stomach earlier this month. The green sea turtle named Omsin, "piggy bank" in Thai, had been finding...
You don't win friends with salad. But maybe salad disguised as cake will buy you some time before social ostracisation kicks in. Behold: The salad cake. It's basically a bunch of vegetables that are smashed together to look like a...
A documentary following villagers' lives in a mountain area affected by the spring 2015 Nepal earthquake, filmed by a Japanese photographer who supports them, is scheduled to be shown in Tokyo on March 25. The film, "Sekai de Ichiban Utsukushii...
Indigenous communities from Yembuba village in Raja Ampat regency, West Papua, were saddened by the damage to the coral reefs after British cruise vessel MV Caledonian Sky ran aground in shallow waters in the area last week. "For decades, we...
DAVAO CITY - "They can do their worst." That's how President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday shrugged off threats of being sued before the International Criminal Court (ICC), or impeached as a result of his bloody war against drugs. "I will not...
Four members of the family who control South Korea's troubled retail giant Lotte, including its 93-year-old founder, went on trial Monday for embezzlement, tax evasion and fraud. The proceedings against company chairman Shin Dong-Bin, 61, his brother, sister and father...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has described European lawmakers as "crazies" in a salty-tongued rebuttal to criticism of his deadly drug war, while vowing again that all traffickers will be killed. Duterte fired his broadside in a late-night speech on Sunday...
North Korea's latest rocket-engine test showed "meaningful" progress, South Korea said on Monday (March 20), while an analyst said it was a dangerous step towards the North's goal of developing a rocket that could hit the United States. The North's...
Oblivious to the danger posed by escalators, young children are often tempted to play on them. A 6-year-old boy learned his lesson the hard way when his hand got trapped in the rolling belt of an escalator in Chongqing,...
