NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday laid the foundation stone for what is set to be the world's tallest statue, as its projected multi-million-dollar cost sparked criticism and an online petition against the project. The statue of Chhatrapati...
MANILA - Philippine authorities on Saturday evacuated thousands in coastal villages in the country's central region where a category 4 typhoon is expected to make landfall later this weekend, bringing strong winds and heavy rains. The weather bureau said typhoon...
TAIPEI, TAIWAN - Israel's representative office to Taiwan on Saturday issued a strong condemnation after high-school students marched in Nazi uniforms in a school-sanctioned event at Hsinchu's Kuangfu Senior High School. "It is deplorable and shocking that seven decades only...
SHANGHAI - China, rocked in recent years by a series of food safety scandals, uncovered as many as half a million illegal food safety violations in the first three quarters of the year, an official said. Chinese officials have unearthed...
SEOUL - Tens of thousands of people were expected to gather in Seoul Saturday for a ninth straight week to demand the immediate ouster of impeached President Park Geun-Hye, organisers said. Parliament voted to impeach Park earlier this month over...
"This is not a battle we will take sitting down," Vice President Leni Robredo said on Friday, joining her voice with those of lawmakers and victims of military abuses alarmed by President Duterte's statement on Thursday that he wanted...
Choi Soon-sil, President Park Geun-hye's longtime friend who stands at the centre of a massive influence-peddling and corruption scandal, appeared before special investigators Saturday to face questioning. Choi's prime charge is that she exerted influence for personal interests and meddled...
The first highway bridge connecting China and Russia over the Heilong River is expected to trigger a development boom in the cross-border economic corridor - with positive effects for Mongolia, as well - as the flow of cargo and...
Jiangxi High Court found that the facts of the case were unclear and evidence was insufficient After staying behind bars for more than a decade for homicide, four men in Jiangxi province were declared innocent on Thursday, the latest case...
Nanyang Siang Pau reported that a four-year-old boy in Tainan, Taiwan, drove his electric toy car out to buy breakfast when his parents were asleep. On Tuesday morning, the boy was spotted driving his BMW ride-on on public roads. He...
