HONG KONG - Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang, the highest-ranking ex-official to be charged in the city's history, on Tuesday denied bribery related to the decoration of a luxury penthouse in the neighbouring Chinese city of Shenzhen. Tsang, 72,...
JAKARTA - With all suspects in a shocking 'toilet murder' case in Jakarta caught, local police have said that robbery was the only motive behind the case. The fourth suspect was arrested in Medan on Sunday. Photo: Instagram/DodiTriyonoThe police statement was made...
LONDON - China has begun its first freight train service to London from Yiwu, a famed wholesale market town in the eastern province of Zhejiang, the Xinhua news agency reported. The train will travel for 18 days over more than...
BENGALURU - Reports of sexual assaults on women revellers at New Year's Eve celebrations in India's southern information technology hub of Bengaluru have spurred women's rights activists to demand that police investigate. The attacks, reminiscent of those blamed on migrants...
YANGON - Myanmar police on Tuesday said they had arrested three people over the murder of a local journalist known for his investigations into illegal logging and brothels. Eleven Media reporter Soe Moe Tun's battered body was found last month on...
JAKARTA - Jakarta's Christian governor Tuesday shouted at an Islamic hardliner testifying against him in dramatic scenes at his blasphemy trial, seen as a test of religious tolerance in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. Hundreds of supporters and opponents...
BEIJING - A former official of China's Food and Drug Administration has been jailed for taking bribes from vaccine manufacturers, reports said Tuesday, in a case with echoes of a major scandal that rocked the Asian country last year. Yin...
BEIJING - China has stepped up security regulations in the border areas of Tibet to combat terrorism and "splittist" risks, state-owned enterprises, "Global Times" said. This move follows the call by China's south-western neighbor India in early December to avoid complicating...
SHANGHAI - China's corruption watchdog is investigating a former vice-minister of the aviation regulator for disciplinary violations, saying he had paid below market price for property during his tenure. The official concerned, Xia Xinghua, who had worked in the Civil Aviation...
SEOUL - South Korea said on Tuesday that US President-elect Donald Trump issued a "clear warning" to North Korea, refuting Pyongyang's ballistic missile requirements. "North Korea is just saying that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon...
