President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered government troops to bomb Moro extremists who flee with their captives in a bid to stop a wave of kidnappings at sea, calling the loss of civilian lives in such an attack "collateral damage." Mr....
PYONGYANG - "That was a personal commission," says renowned North Korean sculptor Ro Ik-Hwa, pointing to a bust of A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist denounced by the US as the world's greatest nuclear proliferator. The bust sits in Ro's workshop...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen was on Saturday (Jan 14) given a high-profile welcome during a stopover in San Francisco, where she was escorted by 60 police officers on Harley Davidson bikes en route a visit to...
China has shown restraint in the face of provocations by US President-elect Donald Trump over Taiwan, but if he continues after assuming office Beijing will "take off the gloves", an official Chinese state-run newspaper said on Monday. Trump broke with...
New Delhi - Flip-flops bearing the face of India's independence icon Mahatma Gandhi for sale on Amazon triggered fresh outrage Sunday, days after the e-retail giant was forced to stop selling Indian flag doormats. On Wednesday, India demanded Amazon apologise...
BHUBANESWAR, India - Five more bodies have been recovered from the Ganges river after an overloaded boat capsized near the capital of eastern India's Bihar state, taking the death toll to 24, officials said on Sunday as rescuers ended...
Thailand faces more hardship from unseasonable floods that have killed 40 people in its south, with more rain expected in the major rubber-producing and tourist region in coming days, a top disaster agency official said on Sunday. Persistent heavy rain...
SAN FRANCISCO - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc on Saturday and reactivated an old account. "Had a great visit to @Twitter...
The perpetrators of the Jan 14 attack last year, dubbed the "Jakarta Four", were killed at the scene, but investigations later established that the plot was facilitated by a wide network of terrorists in Indonesia. At least 17 militants have...
Shortly after the first bomb went off during a terror attack in the heart of Jakarta last January, sales assistant Eka Pratiwi thought she was going to die, so she called her husband to say her last farewell. The 33-year-old...
