THE 32-YEAR-OLD motorcycle taxi driver who has been charged with raping an Australian woman in a parking lot in Taling Chan district last week has claimed he had consensual sex with the tourist, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lt-General Sanit Mahathavorn...
A Chinese newspaper is calling on the country to consider force as a means to conquer Taiwan, following an apparent shift in US policy. The Global Times, considered a provocative mouthpiece for Beijing, penned an editorial column on Wednesday which...
HONG KONG: A former Hong Kong security chief who stepped down after mass protests and is loathed by the city's pro-democracy camp said on Thursday (Dec 15) she will run for leader, as opponents warn she would be a...
SEOUL - South Korea's agriculture ministry raised the country's bird flu alert status to the highest level for the first time on Thursday (Dec 15) as the disease has spread quickly nationwide. The heightened alarm status comes as the country...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte risks impeachment after he admitted "personally" killing criminals when he was the mayor of Davao City, said two Philippine senators. The firebrand leader boasted to business leaders on Monday that as Davao City mayor he...
A five-year-old boy and his father, an Oplan Tokhang surrenderer, died after a gunman fired through the closed window of their shanty in Pasay City over the weekend. The deaths happened in the same area where, in July, another drug...
MANILA - Malacañang on Thursday expressed gratitude to the public for giving President Duterte "very good" net satisfaction rating in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. The SWS poll, conducted from Dec. 3 to 6 with 1,500 respondents, showed...
Beijing city government has issued a red alert for severely high levels of air pollution in the city for three days from Dec. 17 to 21, according to a post on the Beijing environmental protection bureau's official Weibo account...
SEOUL - The former leader of South Korea's main opposition party said on Thursday he would run for president, while adding that the issue of deploying a US anti-missile system should be pushed back to the next presidential administration. "It would...
On Tuesday afternoon (Dec 13) at the delivery room of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital in Changsha, came a touching moment: A pregnant woman with unusual weight successfully delivered a baby with the help of 16 medical staff members. The woman,...
