Indonesian police foiled a terror plot in Jakarta yesterday after arresting three suspects and seizing a homemade bomb from a lodging house in Bekasi, near the capital. The trio - two men and a woman - had made a 3kg...
Rescuers and aid workers were "working shoulder to shoulder" to help victims of the 6.5-magnitude quake in Indonesia's western Aceh province as the number of homeless swelled to more than 45,000. Nearly 4,000 rescuers from the police, military and government...
Nowadays, the internet is usually one of the first places a lonely heart turns to as the following story shows. A 63-year-old retired woman in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province made headlines two days after she posted an advertisement on...
A day after South Korean lawmakers impeached scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans gathered in central Seoul, this time to celebrate the impeachment. Despite the sub-zero temperature, some 800,000 people bundled up in thick jackets and...
About 250,000 people flocked to a pop music concert featuring local and foreign stars held in support of same-sex marriage in Taipei Saturday, organizers said. The concert on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office was one of the...
A man slipped in the shower and got a tap lodged in his back in a freak accident in China's southern Guangdong province on Friday. The incident, which happened in Zhuhai city, left the man with a tap lodged 5cm...
HONG KONG - Around a thousand protesters rallied in Hong Kong on Saturday (Dec 10) against a crackdown on pro-democracy lawmakers and an electoral system skewed towards Beijing ahead of elections for a new city leader. It comes a day...
A boy in China has been getting fatter since he was diagnosed with the Prader-Willi Syndrome at three years old. Now 11, Li Hang weighs 143kg after shedding some kilos recently. Earlier this year, the 1.5m tall boy tipped the...
South Korea's prime minister sought to calm anxiety over national security and to reassure financial markets on Saturday, a day after parliament voted to impeach President Park Geun Hye, making him acting leader. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo Ahn, who assumed...
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced after a devastating earthquake in Indonesia killed more than 100 people, an official said Saturday, leaving communities in ruins as aid trickled into the disaster-stricken province. "We have 45,300 people evacuating in...
