Indonesia's special counterterrorism detachment, Densus 88, on Wednesday questioned eight Indonesian citizens deported by Malaysian authorities after one of them had been found to have kept a picture of the Islamic State (IS) group flag on his smartphone. Riau Islands...
Tigerair Australia on Thursday (Jan 12) accused Indonesia of failing to honour an agreement allowing it to fly to Bali, a day after hundreds of the budget airline's passengers were stranded in the holiday destination due to a bureaucratic technicality. The...
North Korea has made significant progress on its nuclear capability with its plutonium stockpile reaching 50 kilograms, which is capable of making up to a dozen fission bombs, according to South Korea's 2016 defence white paper released Wednesday, The Defence...
Hong Kong - Veteran British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, who broke the news that World War II had started, died Tuesday (Jan 10) aged 105. Family friend Cathy Hilborn Feng confirmed to AFP that Hollingworth had died in Hong Kong,...
Another snowstorm warning has been issued in Hokkaido due to a "strong winter pressure system". It is expected to worsen and last through Friday (Jan 13), Japan broadcaster NHK said. In the last 24 hours, 78cm of snow was recorded in...
BEIJING - China has ordered all schools to teach pupils that its 20th-century war with Japan lasted 14 years rather than eight, the education ministry said Wednesday, to "strengthen patriotic education". Chinese textbooks currently date the "Chinese People's War of...
Two Garuda Indonesia flight attendants, Vera and Ninik Septinawati, have received awards from Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi for taking the initiative to help an elderly passenger get off the plane on a Kuala Lumpur-Jakarta flight on Saturday. "Their spontaneity...
SURAT THANI, Thailand - Heavy rain responsible for floods across southern Thailand eased Wednesday, leaving residents to pick through damaged homes and ruined fields wrought by the 10-day deluge. Record downpours have submerged vast swathes of Thailand's agricultural south since the...
MANILA - The Philippines, seeking to improve relations with China, hopes a framework for a code of conduct in the disputed South China Sea will be completed by the middle of this year, its foreign minister said on Wednesday. Foreign...
BEIJING - China plans to promote traditional dishes and push food firms to set up overseas bases for raw materials such as grain and oil in a bid to improve its food safety record by 2020, the top state...
