JAKARTA - Jakarta's Christian governor looked set for a tough run-off against a Muslim opponent in city elections seen as a test of religious tolerance in Muslim-majority Indonesia, after a tight first round Wednesday. Analysts believe incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who...
Khin Khin Tun's back is a patchwork of burns, searing memories she says from when her former employer poured two flasks of boiling water over her flesh - one for each orange she was accused of stealing. The 14-year-old and...
High in the misty hills of southwestern China, an hour's hike from any road, the lowing of livestock echoes through Zhongdong village, where a group of 18 families live inside an enormous natural cave. The final hold-outs of the country's...
SEOUL - It was at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport that Kim Jong Nam, the estranged elder half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed - reportedly by two unidentified women presumed to be North Korean undercover...
SEOUL - An acquaintance of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says he did not respond to advice to seek asylum in South Korea. According to Yonhap News Agency as quoted in The Korea Herald, the South Korean...
PETALING JAYA - CCTV cameras at KLIA2 have captured a clearer image of a woman believed to be one of the assassins who killed Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The image zooms in on the...
BEIJING - As many as 79 people have died from H7N9 bird flu in China last month, the government said, far surpassing the number of deaths in the same month in recent years and stoking worries about the spread of...
NEW DELHI - India has successfully launched 104 satellites in a mission on Wednesday, and its space agency says it is the world record of the largest number of satellites launched. Of the 104 countries, 101 foreign satellites serve international clients...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong police are struggling to deal with digital pump-and-dump schemes targeting brokerages - a little-known type of computer-generated fraud that surged in the Chinese territory last year. Although the money involved was small - only about $20...
A Taiwanese driver Kang Yuchun's family yesterday was killed in a bus accident with 32 tourists yesterday, condemning a travel agency for his excessive fatigue. The travel agency dismissed these allegations and claimed that Kant had been given adequate rest...
