An online food delivery service's decision to remove restaurants selling dog meat from its platform received mixed reaction from netizens, as the debate over eating dog meat in China continues. Ele.me recently announced that it had removed from its app...
South Korean prosecutors investigating a corruption scandal engulfing President Park-Geun Hye have quizzed Samsung group scion and the chairman of Hyundai Motor, a report said Sunday. Lee Jae-Yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and the heir-apparent of the Samsung group,...
Only less than 20 per cent of some 200 companies in an industrial park in Gunung Putri district, Bogor regency, West Java, have awareness on environmental protection and conservation, a local official has said. Gunung Putri district head Budi Lukmanul...
SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors are seeking to question President Park Geun-hye this week over a political scandal which has engulfed her presidency, Yonhap reported on Sunday. Prosecutors are investigating whether Park exerted improper pressure on "chaebol" conglomerate bosses to...
President Duterte is standing firm on his decision to allow the burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Philippine Heroes' Cemetery, officially known as Libingan ng mga Bayani, saying he was just strictly following the law, unaffected by any...
YANGON - Eight people died and 36 were arrested in clashes between the Myanmar army and what the government believes are Rohingya Muslim militants in northern Rakhine State, state media said on Sunday, in the largest escalation of the month-old...
KARNAL, India - As he surveys his acres of charred farmland outside New Delhi, Ishwar Singh has little sympathy for people choking in India's capital or any reason to stop the fires that are fuelling pollution. "Everyone does it and we've...
LHASA – Traditional teahouses and fashion boutiques have sprung up in Bayi, one of the liveliest district of Lhasa, and are owned and patronised by both Tibetans and Han Chinese. But some say increasing prosperity is just Beijing buying...
YANGON - Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region. Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Muslim Rohingya minority...
LIANGJIAHE, China - Three caves in a remote Chinese village where Xi Jinping was sent during the Cultural Revolution receive a constant stream of Communist pilgrims, come to pay homage four years after he came to power. Xi, then 15, was...
