Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will stand outside a shopping mall in Samut Prakan Friday to sell rice directly to consumers. This is the second time for her to sell rice bought from farmers in the Northeast. Last Saturday, Yingluck...
JAKARTA - Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo are set to inaugurate the Kendal Industrial Park in Central Java, a joint Indonesian-Singaporean project, next Monday. "President Jokowi and Singapore's prime minister will come here to...
NEW DELHI - A farmer in southern India committed suicide fearing she would be left penniless after the government's shock decision to withdraw high denomination notes from circulation, police said Thursday. Kandukuri Vinoda, 55, had a large amount of cash...
TOKYO - A plucky ostrich was living life in the fast lane in Japan earlier this week after making a bold dash for freedom along a stretch of motorway, local media reported. The 1.80-metre (6-feet) 'Roadrunner' brought traffic to a...
NEW DELHI - Long queues formed outside banks in India on Thursday (Nov 10) as they reopened for the first time since the government's shock decision to withdraw the two largest denomination notes from circulation. Some banks in the capital...
Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted two Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong II space lab during a video call on Wednesday (Nov 9) afternoon. Mr Xi asked about the physical condition, living conditions and work progress of astronauts Jing Haipeng and...
TOKYO - Construction workers have begun filling a large sinkhole that opened up on a major road in southern Japan with around 7,000 cubic metres of soil, local media reported. The sinkhole, which measured 30 metres (98 feet) long and...
Singapore IT'S like waking up to a bad dream. Defying the odds, Republican Donald Trump has won the race for the White House, an upset for the political establishment. Betting markets gave him just a 25 per cent chance of...
The Denpasar District Court of Bali started on Wednesday the trial of a British man, David James Taylor, 34, and his Australian girlfriend, Sara Connor, 46, who have been charged with assaulting and murdering a policeman. Prosecutor Anak Agung Ngurah...
Vocational students have promised not to engage in violence out of respect for His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The pledge was made at by almost a million students at 914 vocational schools nationwide. At a ceremony at the Pathumthani Technical College...
