CUC PHUONG NATIONAL PARK, VIETNAM - Pangolin Mi Bo has seen better days. He arrived at a rescue centre in Vietnam missing a paw after it was cut off in a snare trap. The rest of his body is marked by...
Fed up with having high beam headlights shone at them on the roads, some drivers in China are turning to scary ghost decals to shock those who use the powerful headlights. These decals were recently noticed by traffic police in...
TOKYO - A Japanese city on Tuesday reopened a busy street that collapsed into a giant sinkhole, with the efforts of workers who toiled around the clock for a week drawing praise on social media. The gigantic sinkhole, measuring around 30...
SEOUL - South Korean President Park Geun-hye has retained a lawyer ahead of being questioned by prosecutors investigating a political scandal engulfing her presidency, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday. Park will be the first president to be questioned by...
The reported death toll obscures the true horror of what happened in the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan on Nov 2 when an oil tanker being disassembled caught fire. Twenty-six dead is the count so far, based on workers' records...
Some four million men in Vietnam will have no opportunity of getting married by 2050 if the current imbalance in the nation's sex ratio persists, said experts. According to the Hanoi Population and Family Planning Department, the capital city's boy-to-girl...
A young Jack Ma look-alike has won the heart of the founder of Alibaba Group, the real Jack Ma. Fan Xiaoqin or "mini Jack Ma" is 8-years-old and lives in Yongfeng County, east China's Jiangxi Province. His family circumstances are...
Statues donated by pro-Beijing actor Jackie Chan to a top Taiwanese museum and later defaced by anti-China protesters have been removed from display, officials said Monday, in a further sign of ties between the neighbours deteriorating. Workers began to move...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Monday that Islamic State militants driven out of Syria and Iraq could set up in his country, and if that happened he would forego human rights obligations to keep his people safe. Mr Duterte...
Animal lovers were enraged when a video posted on Weibo showed a dog limping in a wolf enclosure in a Shandong zoo. Netizens were quick to associate this incident with China's infamous Yulin Dog Meat Festival, where dogs are caught...
