In this screen shot of an anti-corruption documentary, Wu Tianjun, former security chief of Henan province, is interrogated by officials of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the country's top discipline watchdog, in November 2016. The three-part TV...
SEOUL - Apple Inc said it was planning to open a retail store in South Korea, its first in the country that is home to its smartphone archrival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. The iPhone maker listed hiring notices for 15...
HONG KONG - A third case of human avian influenza was confirmed in Hong Kong last Friday. A 62-year-old man was seriously ill and the second patient was confirmed to be infected with the same H7N9 virus. The first patient died...
The world's largest annual human migration, the Spring Festival travel rush, will be even larger this year. People will make a total of 2.98 billion trips nationwide during the annual travel peak, from Jan 13 to Feb 21, up 2.2...
Taipei - Fifty pole dancers clad in black bikinis gave one Taiwan politician a raucous final send-off in an eyebrow-raising funeral parade that jammed traffic and drew crowds of onlookers. It was not a quiet, dignified exit for local councillor...
Chinese internet colossus Baidu is out to make a splash with 'Little Fish,' a freshly unveiled family robot that is a voice-controlled virtual valet akin to Amazon Echo or Google Home. Baidu showed off "Little Fish," a translation of its...
PATTAYA, Thailand - A baby elephant took a tentative dip in a swimming pool in Thailand on Thursday as part of a lengthy rehabilitation process to heal her injured foot. Baby Fah Jam was three months old when her front left...
BANGKOK - Nearly 480 people died on Thailand's roads over the New Year holiday, official figures showed on Thursday (Jan 5), a 25 per cent rise over the so-called "seven dangerous days" despite the junta's tough talk on drink driving. The...
KABACAN, PHILIPPINES - Philippine authorities said Thursday they had captured or killed dozens of men who escaped in the nation's biggest jailbreak but more than 110 remained on the run in vast farmlands and isolated villages of the nation's strife-torn...
NIIGATA, JAPAN - The governor of Japan's Niigata prefecture reiterated his opposition to the restart of Tokyo Electric Power's (Tepco) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, adding it may take a few years to review the pre-conditions for restart. During a meeting on...
