BEIJING - Foshan, a city in China's Guangdong province, said it will extend the monthly cleaning periods for live poultry markets for the next three months to help control the spread of virulent bird flu, with authorities warning the...
TOKYO - A religious ceremony in Japan where carp are plied with alcohol before being returned to a river has left animal rights activists feeling green around the gills. The rural festival, held every January in snow-swept Toyama prefecture, central...
SINGAPORE - Asian pirates are focusing more of their attacks on larger merchant ships near the Philippines, hoping for bigger ransom payments from kidnapping their crew, the head of a regional anti-piracy body said on Friday. The region's pirates have changed...
BEIJING - One of China's highest profile former pastors, Gu Yuese, has been formally arrested for the second time on suspicion of embezzling funds, people close to his family said on Friday. Police sent an arrest warrant to Gu's family...
HO CHI MINH CITY - John Kerry began his swansong tour as US Secretary of State in Vietnam on Friday, defending Washington's 'pivot' to Asia in the face of President-elect Donald Trump's threat to dump a key regional trade...
Seoul - Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong returned home Friday after marathon questioning by South Korean prosecutors as a suspect in a massive corruption scandal involving impeached President Park Geun-Hye. Read also: Samsung heir becomes suspect in S Korea political scandal Lee Jae-yong (C)...
SEOUL - South Korea's foreign minister said on Friday there was nothing wrong with erecting a statue in memory of women forced to work in Japanese brothels in World War Two, but its location outside a Japanese consulate was...
In what is possibly a world's first, India's national carrier Air India will now be reserving seats for women. Six seats in the front rows of domestic flights will be blocked without any additional cost, The Hindu reported. For a while...
SITTWE, Myanmar - The ruling party in Myanmar's Rakhine state government said Friday it refused to meet a UN envoy who is probing allegations of horrific abuse of Rohingya Muslims by security forces in the region. Yanghee Lee, the UN...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Friday morning the house of President Rodrigo Duterte in Davao City. Abe joined Duterte for breakfast at the President's modest home in Doña Luisa Subdivision in Matina District. Special Assistant to the President Christopher "Bong"...
