Kolkata - Indian police said Wednesday they had arrested a senior regional official from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party over alleged links to a trafficking scandal that saw children sold to foreign couples. Investigators said children aged between six months...
The last surviving giant freshwater stingray of those rescued after the mass deaths of more than 50 of the rare fish in the Mae Klong River in October will be returned to its natural habitat this month. The stingray, nicknamed...
The Court of Appeal has upheld the death penalty against two Myanmar migrant workers for one of the most shocking crimes in Thailand's history - the violent murders of two British backpackers on the resort island of Koh Tao. David...
Marking Independence Movement Day, millions of South Koreans poured onto the streets, turning central Seoul into a sea of national flags Wednesday. But this time, the nation is deeply divided, protesting for and against President Park Geun-hye's impeachment. As the Constitutional...
Seoul - South Korean activists will send millions of leaflets about the poisoning murder of the half-brother of the North's leader across the border by balloon, they said Thursday. It is not clear how many North Koreans are aware of...
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia will on Friday release and deport a North Korean held in custody by police investigating the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader, Attorney General Mohamed Apandi Ali told...
Manila - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign to bring back the death penalty for drug-related crimes has cleared a major hurdle, with supporters backing it in congress but critics denouncing the plans as "inhumane". The death penalty bill, along with...
A pregnant woman who saved her daughter's life by shielding her in a road accident will now have to go through an abortion and have her right leg amputated. According to Sina news, the 26-year-old woman, her husband and their...
With hundreds of thousands of flowers now decorating the room, the House of Representatives' Plenary Hall is ready to welcome Saudi King Salman bin Abdulazis Al Saud, who will visit the legislature to speak before thousands of invitees on...
Women and teenage girls in Kushma, the headquarters of Parbat district, and Huwas, Khanigaun, Kyang VDCs have received training from Japanese volunteer Yuki Yuki Yamamoto to make sanitary pads at their homes. Yamamoto said she has trained around 700 women...
