Ongart Thamnita, the spokesman for followers of Dhammakaya Temple, yesterday urged the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to withdraw its police complaint against him and other temple adherents rather than "impose fear upon people". In the announcement via Facebook Live,...
PHNOM PENH - The realisation hit him six months into his presidency: He doesn't need the job. "I am old," President Duterte told a cheering crowd of several thousand expatriate Filipinos in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on his arrival...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Two major chain stores Wednesday removed from their shelves food products believed to be from radiation-affected areas in Japan. Muji removed two pre-cooked rice products totaling 638 packs after suspecting that they included soup from Tochigi Prefecture,...
Japan's parliament has just legalized casino gaming even though most Japanese oppose it. Here's why. Lawmakers in the upper house sent the bill over its final hurdle early Thursday, even though polls have repeatedly shown more than half of Japanese...
Plastic surgery and dermatology clinics in South Korea are looking to cash in on President Park Geun-hye's enthusiasm for "aesthetic injection" treatments, including one with human placental extract, despite her deep unpopularity. Parliament impeached Park last week, and depending on...
Tokyo - Japan passed a long-awaited bill to legalise casinos Thursday (Dec 15), Jiji Press reported, opening up a market seen as a potential global gaming powerhouse rivalling Asian titan Macau. The controversial bill got through parliament in the early...
JAKARTA - A woman who was planning to be a suicide bomber had worked in Singapore as a maid. Dian Yulia Novi was arrested in an anti-terror raid last week for plotting to attack the Presidential Palace in the capital. The...
Seoul - South Korea's embattled president was visited by "shadowy" doctors who injected her with human placenta extract, a parliamentary inquiry into a growing corruption scandal heard Wednesday. The ongoing, two-month hearing is seeking to get to the bottom of a...
Shanghai - The former party chief of Nanjing city has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for accepting bribes, a Chinese court said Wednesday, two years after he was sacked amid a national crackdown on corruption. Yang...
A Thai woman's toothache turned out to be something much more sinister. Jenie Yoo, 27, thought she needed dental fillings when she felt pain in her two front teeth last year. ...
