Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte admitted the existence of the Davao Death Squad in the city where he once served as mayor. A day after a confessed hit man told the Philippine Senate he acted on the orders of President Rodrigo...
KUCHING - The Sarawak Immigration Department is rounding up 140 North Koreans in Sarawak whose work permits have expired, said Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg. The state government, he said, was waiting for instructions from Putrajaya on...
A private school in Guangzhou has apologised after saying it would only accept students whose parents are university graduates. Canadian Foreign Language School, a bilingual institute in the Guangdong provincial capital, posted the message on WeChat and on an electronic...
KUALA LUMPUR - Rapid-fire moves by Malaysia and North Korea to hold each other's citizens hostage on Tuesday substantially escalated diplomatic tensions that have been simmering since the estranged half brother of North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un was...
Seoul - The political fate of South Korea's scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye will be decided by the country's highest court Friday, a spokesman said, when it will rule on whether to confirm her impeachment. Park was impeached by parliament in...
Bangkok - Thailand's junta held talks Wednesday with the political party it booted from office, in a much trumpeted but long-delayed reconciliation plan the generals say will heal political wounds in the bitterly divided nation. Once one of Asia's tiger...
President Rodrigo Duterte wants plunder and rape to be next in line among the heinous crimes punishable with death penalty, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said on Wednesday. In an ambush interview with reporters, Alvarez said he met with the President Tuesday...
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday expressed her support for this year's International Women's Day (IWD) campaign theme of "Be Bold for Change", urging all to start by respecting one another, solving gender inequity, and opposing violence against...
Among the various programmes planned for International Women's Day, to be observed on Wednesday, there is also going to be the Paxi, which is the first women-exclusive taxi - "for women and by women". By this the Paxi Pakistan Company...
POLICE in the southern Surat Thani province yesterday intensified the search for a Russian tourist who went missing two weeks ago, amid suspicions she might have got in trouble while snorkelling off Koh Tao. Valentina Novozhenova, 23, disappeared from a...
