Diving and snorkeling contribute to coral reef damage according to research by the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB). The study, conducted at Panggang Island in the Thousand Islands regency between April and June 2013, found that diving and snorkeling in...
The Confucius Museum in Qufu, Shandong province - the birthplace of China's most famous sage - will be opened in the second half of this year, a local official said on Wednesday, describing it as the country's first comprehensive...
They claimed that no nationals had yet reported that they were victimised due to the hack. Speaking at an emergency press event, Winston Chung, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affair's Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA), apologised to the...
Beijing - Four people have been detained over a foot massage parlour fire that killed 18 and injured 18 others in eastern China at the weekend, state media reported. The individuals, who were in charge of the facility, were taken...
NEW DELHI - An Indian publisher has caused a furore with a school textbook that encourages children to suffocate kittens as part of a scientific experiment. The book, which is used in hundreds of private schools in India, includes an...
Beijing - China will double the number of AIDS patients it treats with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), officials have said, part of a broader push to increase the use of the ancient practice in the country's medical system. The promotion...
Animal listed as 'critically endangered' after population declined by up to 94 per cent Conservation groups have called for governments to increase protection of the Chinese pangolin after a social media post triggered public concern over this critically endangered wild...
MANILA - A massive fire swept through a crowded shanty town near the docks in Manila, destroying houses and leaving 15,000 people homeless, authorities in the Philippine capital said on Wednesday. Seven people were injured in fire that broke out...
A Myanmar patrol boat opened fire on Bangladeshi fishermen, killing one, because it feared it was under attack, Myanmar state media said on Wednesday, in a report on the latest violence on the countries' troubled border. A Bangladeshi security official...
A man in China nearly lost his wife after a heated dispute, but managed to save the day by grabbing the suicidal woman's ponytail just as she leaped off a high-rise building. According to South China Morning Post, the woman...
