TAIPEI - Uber Technologies Inc said it will suspend its service in Taiwan from Feb 10, the latest salvo in the wrangle between the island's authorities and the global ride-hailing service company. Late last year, Taiwan's legislature finalised regulations raising fines...
Hong Kong - A Chinese billionaire who went missing from Hong Kong and is believed to have been abducted by mainland security agents is reportedly under investigation in connection with China's 2015 stocks crash. Local media say financier Xiao Jianhua...
Indonesian authorities said Yogyakarta's Adisutjipto International Airport will remain closed until Thursday afternoon after a Garuda aircraft with 130 people on board skidded off the runway while landing late on Wednesday. According to a statement on the website of flag...
Two Chinese state-owned mining companies plan to destroy an ancient Buddhist city in Afghanistan in order to get the copper underneath it, according to a new documentary According to the film "Saving Mes Aynak," Metallurgical Group Corp. (MCC) and Jiangxi...
India is the latest and largest nation to consider giving cash handouts to its citizens in an effort to alleviate endemic poverty. The notion, often called "universal basic income," has been gaining traction recently even in places that don't have...
Don't try this at home. Seriously. This intense battle between two guys in China shooting fireworks at each other is going viral. The official People's Daily outlet tweeted the dangerous "duel" between the two men, where they blasted fireworks on sticks...
An artist in Guangzhou City of south China's Guangdong Province carved 100 chickens on eggshells to mark the Chinese Year of the Rooster. Sun Kaifu, the artist, was born in the Year of the Rooster. The year 2017 sees the...
Seoul, Feb 1, 2017 (AFP) - Former United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, one of the world's most recognised South Koreans, announced Wednesday he will not stand for the presidency of his country. Ban returned home last month after a decade...
HONG KONG - Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua's reported abduction from Hong Kong by mainland security agents has shone a spotlight on the business dealings and political connections of the financier some local media have dubbed China's J.P. Morgan. Xiao went...
JAKARTA - Indonesia's highest Muslim clerical council is to issue an edict, or fatwa, declaring the spreading of fake news un-Islamic, the organisation's chairman said on Wednesday. Indonesia has one of the world's highest number of Facebook and Twitter users,...
