Beijing - More than 20,000 Myanmar refugees have entered China, fleeing areas along the border after violent clashes broke out between the south east Asian country's army and ethnic rebels this week, Beijing said Thursday. Geng Shuang, a spokesman for...
DENPASAR, Indonesia - An Indonesian court sentenced former Reuters journalist David Fox to seven months in prison on Thursday for possession of hashish, less than the one-year jail term sought by prosecutors, meaning that he can be released in...
The ongoing scourge of Japan's Fukushima- radiation - now roaming the disaster-hit area on four legs. Hundreds of radioactive wild boars moved into deserted towns after the nuclear crisis. Now they scour the empty streets and overgrown backyards of the...
KUALA LUMPUR - Two UN employees who were among 11 Malaysian nationals stranded in North Korea following a travel ban have left the country, a Malaysian government source said on Thursday. The two people work for the World Food Programme...
Two Malaysian UN employees were allowed to leave North Korea on Thursday, a spokeswoman for the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said, while the Malaysian government negotiated for a travel ban to be lifted on nine citizens still stranded...
The heir to the Samsung business empire denies all charges in connection with a wide-ranging corruption scandal, his lawyers told a preliminary hearing Thursday. Lee Jae-Yong, 48, was not present at Seoul Central District court for the hearing, which comes...
Two suspects - including the leader of a Batam terrorist cell - who are accused of planning to fire a rocket at Marina Bay have denied having any part in the foiled attack. The alleged leader, Gigih Rahmat Dewa, and...
Despite its recent belligerence, North Korea has some friends in South-east Asia, at least by the standards of the hermit state. Cambodia, which recently allowed North Korea to design, build and operate a US$24 million (S$34 million) museum dedicated to...
In yet another communal attack, a young Muslim girl in Bangalore was brutally trolled in various social media platforms for singing Hindi devotional song at a Kannada music reality show. The girl, Suhana Sayed from Shimoga district, presented a sensational...
What was set to be a beautiful matrimony ended in violent calamity in Ludhiana, on Monday (Mar 6), after a woman claiming to be the first wife of a bridegroom gate-crashed her estranged husband's wedding celebrations - as he...
