KOLKATA - Tens of thousands of people turned out Monday for nationwide protests against India's controversial ban on high-value banknotes, which opposition party organisers say has caused a "financial emergency". India is still reeling from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock...
We're going to need a firefighter to hose us down, because it's getting really hot in here. Photographs featuring shirtless firemen from the New Taipei Fire Department (NTFD) in their bunker gear and equipment have spread like wildfire (pun intended!)...
Hundreds of thousands rallied in central Seoul on Saturday for a fifth week of protests against President Park Geun-hye, in the largest ongoing series of demonstrations in the country since the 1987 movement to democratize South Korea. Park's presidency has...
Philippine police detonated a suspicious package they thought could have been a home-made bomb found in a trash bin near the US embassy in Manila on Monday, the police chief in the capital said. There was no damage from the...
A recent research says that two-fifths of freshmen at Peking University, one of the most prestigious universities in China, thought of life as meaningless. The revelation has attracted much attention in China. Meanwhile, it's not rare to see lethargic employees...
A retired teacher in northwestern China has found a novel raw material for making paper－poop from the giant panda. Liu Xiaodong, 68, has had a paper-making workshop in Qiliang village of Shaanxi province since stepping down as the local primary...
Every other Sunday, 17-year-old Gursewak Singh plays the tabla drums at the Sikh temple located in the basement of a Tokyo building where his father leads the local community in prayers. He dreams of going to college and working in...
On the surface, it may seem like the funeral of Ferdinand Marcos at the Heroes' Cemetery recently was nothing more than a sorry effort to make a hero out of a disgraced dictator. Certainly, a funeral done in secret behind...
SEOUL - A prominent K-pop music video director was charged Sunday as part of a corruption scandal rocking South Korea and engulfing President Park Geun-Hye. Cha Eun-Taek, who has worked with "Gangnam Style" star Psy and boy band megastars Big...
LOPBURI, Thailand - It is a feast fit for a monkey king. On Sunday the central Thai town of Lopburi put on a five-star banquet for its hundreds of macaque inhabitants, sparking a mass simian food fight. Lopburi has been...
