HONG KONG - Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang has resigned from his post, pending an announcement that he will run for the city's top job next March, Cable TV news reported on Monday (Dec 12). The resignation ends months...
South Korea may be nearing the end of a bizarre political saga in which a slain dictator's daughter returns to the presidential palace as an elected leader and falls from disgrace upon the revelation she has been a "puppet"...
JAKARTA - As the ranks of protesters thickened in central Jakarta on Dec. 2, turning into Indonesia's biggest mass demonstration since the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, President Joko Widodo grappled with a dilemma: should he join the...
SHANGHAI - Mr Ma Yiqing, 24, is typical of China's younger generation - he uses his credit card frequently and borrows from online platforms to fund his shopping habits. In a pinch, he is happy to fall back on a lender...
SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors indicted a former senior presidential aide and a former vice culture minister as part of their investigation of a corruption scandal that has led to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment in parliament, media said on...
In Korea, the diversity of seaweed can be dizzying, from silken thin maesaengi to strands of emerald green parae and wide ribbons of miyeok. Among the staggering Korean lexicon of edible algae there is a delicacy traditionally enjoyed on Jeju...
For Muslim businesses hoping to expand overseas, Japan may not be an obvious draw. After all, the crescent moon and star is likely not that common in the land of the rising sun - a country of about 127 million...
HONG KONG - Voting is underway in Hong Kong as members of 25 subsectors representing various trades and professions are choosing their representatives for an Election Committee which will select the city's next chief executive in 2017. Some 1,239 candidates...
He was South Korea's third prime minister in one year, a largely ceremonial position that kept changing hands under President Park Geun Hye's administration. But Mr Hwang Kyo Ahn, 59, a former prosecutor, outlasted even his boss this time round...
SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors have indicted a former senior presidential aide and a former vice culture minister as part of an investigation of a corruption scandal that led to President Park Geun Hye's impeachment in parliament, media said...
