Police officers are expected to maintain law and order, which makes a video from Indonesia showing a policeman appearing to join a mob to hit out at a driver all the more shocking. The incident occurred on Mar 2 in...
The Mila Mount Tunnel on the Lhasa-Nyingchi Highway is expected to be opened in September, when it will become the world's highest super-long tunnel. The tunnel is located at the junction of Lhasa and Nyingchi in the Tibet autonomous region...
Smoking will be banned in all public places across the Philippines really soon, local media reported. The country's Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol was quoted by ABS-CBN News as saying President Rodrigo Duterte will sign the pertinent executive order as early...
PHANGANE, INDIA - They wear uniforms, carry satchels and eagerly recite the alphabet in class, but the students here are different - this is a "school for grannies". Deprived of an education as children, the women - most of whom...
BANGKOK - Thai veterinarians on Monday (March 6) removed 915 coins from a 25-year-old sea turtle which had been swallowing items thrown into her pool for good luck, eventually limiting her ability to swim. The coins and other objects removed...
A Chinese man who was hoping to get married has been publicly rejected by his girlfriend after the latter yelled at him for not having a proper toilet in his home. As if that wasn't embarrassing enough, the moment of...
Thailand's military government plans to spend about 406 billion baht (S$16.4 billion) on airport development nationwide over the next 10 years to handle increasing passengers, a senior official said on Monday. The plan, aimed at making Thailand a regional aviation...
North Korea said Monday it would expel Malaysia's ambassador in a tit-for-tat move after Pyongyang's envoy left the Southeast Asian nation in an increasingly bitter row over the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. "The Foreign Ministry...
China's third most powerful leader said on Monday that Beijing had the right to"step in" to Hong Kong's leadership contest, according to local politicians who met him, in remarks fuelling fears of meddling from Communist Party leaders. The comments by...
China called for restraint Monday after North Korea test-launched four ballistic missiles, criticising the move but also suggesting that South Korea and the United States were partly to blame. "China is opposed to the DPRK's launches in violation of the...
