India's decision to invalidate much of its cash may have incurred a lot of discomfort to millions, but it has also unintentionally helped bust an age-old myth. Indians no longer have to worry about whipping out their smartphones at petrol...
JAKARTA - Bad weather in Singapore forced Changi Airport to divert four flights from Hong Kong, Australia, Thailand and Japan to Hang Nadim International Airport in Batam, Riau Islands, on Thursday. The planes waited in Batam for more than four...
TOKYO - The biggest crowds of his nearly three-decade reign thronged Japan's Imperial Palace on Friday to celebrate Emperor Akihito's 83rd birthday on what could be his last such appearance after expressing his desire to abdicate. It was his first...
Key figures in the President Park Geun-hye scandal, Choi Soon-sil and her daughter possess some 800 billion won (S$962 million) worth of assets under borrowed names in Germany, a local daily reported Thursday. According to the Hankook Ilbo, German prosecutors...
Social workers are thinking of ways to stop the annual influx of beggars to Metro Manila and nearby provinces during the Christmas season, particularly those belonging to Aeta and Sama-Bajau ethnic groups. Entire Aeta communities from Central Luzon and Sama-Bajau...
President Rodrigo Duterte was the most googled person in the Philippines this year, according Time magazine reported. In the article "See the Most Googled Person in Each Country in 2016″, Duterte was tagged as "known for waging a deadly war...
BEIJING - A hand grenade was used to crack walnuts for 25 years by a villager in China who had no idea what he was using until he saw a photo of a grenade on a leaflet handed out...
A 15-year-old girl in Nepal was found dead in a shed that she was banished to because she was menstruating. According to the BBC, the girl, who was identified as Roshani Tiruwa, had reportedly suffocated to death after lighting a...
A drunk passenger who was involved in an in-flight assault on a Korean Air flight on Dec 20 was revealed to be the son of Doojung Chairman Lim Byung-sun. Founded in 1984, Doojung is a manufacturer of makeup brushes which...
NANJING - A woman's life is in danger from smoke inhalation after she allegedly set fire to her boyfriend's bed but got trapped in the burning apartment, a Chinese report said. Firefighters responded to a report of a fire at...
