Myanmar police are investigating the murder of four people in northern Rakhine state, the government said Tuesday, days after ending a military campaign in the area the UN has compared to ethnic cleansing. The corpses of three women and a...
A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien species", officials said Tuesday. The Takagoyama Nature Zoo in the city of Futtsu in Chiba prefecture east of...
Remember how we all swooned when we learnt that Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu's husband is naming his new hotel in Taipei after her? Now Hotel S is in the spotlight again for operating without a licence. Taiwanese media reported that the...
KUALA LUMPUR - A second autopsy was not performed on the body of Kim Jong-nam, says Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said the analysis on the post-mortem examination to confirm the identity of the deceased and the cause...
The name "Ivanka" is quickly getting popular in China it seems. Chinese companies have submitted at least 65 applications to use Ivanka Trump's name as a trademark for their products, reported the South China Morning Post. An additional 40 companies have...
JAKARTA - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Tuesday that comments by the North Korean ambassador casting doubt over a Malaysian investigation into the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader were "diplomatically rude". "The statement by...
Malaysian authorities said on Tuesday they had yet to determine a cause of death in the killing of the half-brother of North Korea's leader, and had still to confirm the identity as no next of kin has come forward. Read...
Jakarta - Jakarta was hit by widespread flooding on Tuesday (Feb 21) after hours of torrential rain, with thousands of homes inundated, cars stranded and people forced to wade through murky brown water. Water up to 1.5 metres (five feet)...
Scuffles broke out at the mega Dhammakaya temple yesterday, where thousands of followers have dug in their heels after police ordered those with no residence inside to leave the sprawling compound. Fears that the authorities would cut water and electricity...
South Korea has condemned the North Korean regime for the blatant murder of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur, calling it an "inhumane crime and terrorist act that cannot be tolerated". Acting President...
