SEOUL - Handcuffed and tied with white rope, the scion of one of the world's biggest conglomerates, Samsung Group, was taken on Saturday for questioning by South Korean authorities after spending a night in a small detention cell. Samsung Group...
TOKYO - Former North Korean spy Kim Hyon-hui said the alleged assassins of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to be amateurs, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Saturday. Kim Jong Nam, the older half-brother of...
MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will review his minister's order to close more than half the country's mines for environmental violations, following an outcry from affected producers. "I will review. There's such a thing as exhaustion...
What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay there, and senior citizens in Japan are profiting from it. An elderly daycare centre in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, Day Service Las Vegas, has adopted a winning formula to keep its residents...
SEOUL - Membership of North Korea's ruling dynasty brings enormous privilege, but for anyone who falls foul of the power games there is a potentially fatal price to pay. The assassination of leader Kim Jong-Un's elder half-brother Jong-Nam in Malaysia...
SHANGHAI - China is closely following US President Donald Trump's plans to create more domestic jobs by encouraging US companies to bring home or "reshore" their overseas production, but the government will not change its overall strategy, Industry Minister...
TOKYO - Successful hotel chain operator Toshio Motoya doesn't mind if his denial of a notorious Japanese World War II military atrocity in China drives customers away. Motoya not only penned a book calling the 1937 Nanjing massacre a lie...
Bao Bao, the giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, did not disappoint at her Chinese dumpling farewell party on Thursday morning. As a crowd gathered outside her yard, Bao Bao, who will return to China on...
BEIJING - Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China told his US counterpart Rex Tillerson that Beijing was ready to work with the Trump administration, according to a Chinese account of their meeting in Bonn. Wang and Tillerson met on Friday...
PETALING JAYA - A divorcee who has been arrested as one of the suspects in the high-profile murder of North Korean exile Kim Jong-nam was able to speak Korean and had always wanted to go to North Korea. From the...
