President Park Geun-hye's bodyguard remained quiet on key issues surrounding Park's relationship to her close confidante Choi Soon-sil and her alleged negligence of duty over the Sewol ferry disaster during the impeachment trial on Thursday, citing national security and...
A man in Fengshan county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is being probed for allegedly maltreating his 92-year-old mother by locking her up in a pigpen. A video has gone viral on Chinese social media showing how the old woman, surnamed...
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, upon returning to his home country on Thursday, once again hinted that he would run in the forthcoming presidential election, underlining his past 10 years of experience as the chief official of the international...
Health authorities have confirmed the first case of H7N9 bird flu in a 72-year-old woman native of the Chinese territory of Macau, after she returned from a visit to the southern Chinese area of Zhongshan, the official Xinhua news...
MANILA - Women's rights groups on Thursday applauded Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's vow to deliver free contraceptives to six million women in a bid to salvage the government's floundering family planning programme. Governments and the dominant Catholic church have waged...
Friends and colleagues of the Philippine president discuss what drives him MANILA -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte capitalised on his tough guy image to vault himself into the presidency in June 2016. So far, his sky-high 80 per cent approval...
MANILA - The Philippines is deferring plans to repair and upgrade features it occupies in the disputed South China Sea, the country's military chiefs said on Thursday, to avoid provoking China while the two traditional foes seek to bury...
NEW DELHI - A paramilitary soldier from one of India's elite security units shot dead four of his senior officers on Thursday in an apparent row over leave, police said. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) soldier fired indiscriminately at...
DENPASAR, Indonesia - Hundreds of tourists stranded on the resort island of Bali following the suspension of Tigerair Australia flights this week were given the green light to fly out Thursday after Indonesian officials grounded the carrier for violating...
SHANGHAI - China will not allow its mammoth mobile online population to play Pokemon Go or other augmented-reality games until it completes a review of potential security risks, a Chinese digital publishing group said. The roadblock was put up amid...
