The parliament's impeachment of President Park Geun-hye was a flawed process, based on false accusations with no evidence, according to the first argument made by Park's legal representatives. The 28-page written statement, submitted to the Constitutional Court on Friday, was...
BEIJING - Authorities in Tianjin grounded dozens of flights and closed most highways on Sunday after severe smog blanketed the city, one of more than 40 in China's northeast to issue pollution warnings in the past 48 hours. Air quality...
Manila - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's admission that he used a powerful painkiller has prompted concern about his health, with lawmakers urging him Sunday to undergo a medical examination and disclose the results. Duterte on Monday revealed that he used...
Berlin - Protestors rallied in Berlin on Saturday against the war in Syria denouncing the international community for failing to help civilians, especially children, in the besieged city of Aleppo. Holding banners saying "The children of Aleppo are calling you!",...
Dian Yulia Novi was not known to be religious growing up in Cirebon, West Java. She started wearing the hijab only a few years ago, after she left her home town to work in Taiwan and Singapore as a...
Seoul - South Korea's presidential Blue House has been something of a family home for Park Geun-Hye, but the luxury residence has now become a place of solitary confinement for the impeached, isolated leader. Park has twice called the Blue...
JAKARTA - An Indonesian air force transport plane has crashed into a mountain, killing all 13 people board, during a training exercise in the remote region of Papua, a search and rescue agency official said on Sunday. The Hercules C130 plane...
TOKYO - Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, an official said Sunday. It is the fifth mass cull this winter in Japan with...
TOKYO - Japanese workers put up with long hours and unpaid overtime under pressure from cost-saving companies, and figures from government, which wants more money in workers' pockets to boost consumer spending, appear to underestimate the problem. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
PETALING JAYA - The price rise of coconuts in the country is partially due to an increase in demand within the Asian region. Malaysian Agricultural and Development Institute (Mardi) Genebank and Seed Centre deputy director Mohd Rashid Rabu said the increased...
