The number of corrupt officials who have escaped overseas has declined sharply amid an intensified anti-graft drive, a senior official said on Monday. Since 2014, the number of newly identified corrupt officials who have fled China has fallen annually, said...
Bangkok - The most severe rains in 30 years have led to flooding across the southern part of Thailand as the Army stepped up its efforts to reach remote inundated areas, the kingdom's junta said Monday. At least 21 people were...
JIAXING, CHINA - A Chinese factory is hatching giant inflatable chickens resembling Donald Trump to usher in the Year of the Rooster. The five-metre (16-foot) fowls sport the distinctive golden mane of the US president-elect and mimic his signature hand gestures...
JAKARTA - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo reproached his military chief in a meeting last week amid concerns the commander was "out of control" after he unilaterally suspended defence co-operation with Australia, two sources briefed on the meeting said. Widodo's intervention highlights...
BANGKOK - Thai officials convicted in corruption cases involving more than 1 billion baht ($28 million) could face the death penalty under a proposal approved on Monday by the military-appointed National Reform Steering Committee. Analysts say such a stern punishment for...
MANILA - Masses of Catholic devotees in the Philippine capital braved sizzling weather and terrorist fears on Monday in a frenzied bid to touch a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ that is believed to have miraculous powers. The annual parade,...
Tokyo - Draped in dazzling kimonos, thousands of expensively made-up young Japanese women marked their entry into adulthood on Monday - with many planning a night on the booze to celebrate. Formal "Coming of Age" ceremonies, which began as a...
The man at the centre of Indonesia's surprise move to suspend a part of bilateral military ties with Australia is known to be an outspoken nationalist. General Gatot Nurmantyo, 56, chief of Indonesia's military, reportedly issued the order to suspend...
The Indonesian immigration authorities have rejected 418 passport applications made through their Batam office last year, with some of those denied suspected to have made plans to travel to the Middle East to join the Islamic State in Iraq...
Surgeons in Japan made an unusual find while performing a routine procedure on a 16-year-old girl. During surgery to remove her appendix, they discovered a 10cm-wide tumour in her ovary, they wrote in a paper recently published in the medical...
