Doctors in China treating a man who lost his right ear in a car accident have helped him grow a new one－on his arm. The patient, identified only as Ji, who is in his late 30s, was injured a year...
BEIJING - Hundreds of rescuers in northern China strove Wednesday to reach a boy who had been trapped in an abandoned well for over 60 hours. The six-year-old was helping his father harvest cabbage at Baoding city in the northern...
JAKARTA/ISLAMABAD/CAIRO - Many Muslims around the world expressed dismay on Wednesday at Donald Trump's election as US president, saying they feared it might raise tensions between the West and Islam and contribute to radicalisation. While Egypt's president made an early...
BEIJING - Chinese greeted Donald Trump's victory with a mix of optimism and bemusement Wednesday, unsure how the US president-elect who demonised their country on the campaign trail would approach it once in office. Communist-ruled China does not hold competitive...
India has abolished its big currency notes to make way for new and visually more appealing currency notes. This is what they look like now. In a surprise address to the nation last evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that...
MANILA - In an act that may spark condemnation from women's groups, President Duterte let loose his philandering self as he openly flirted with Vice President Leni Robredo in front of hundreds of survivors of Supertyphoon "Yolanda" in Tacloban...
Her baby was just 40 days old when Ms Sumarti Ningsih left for Hong Kong in 2011 to work as a domestic helper. It wasn't an easy decision for the single mother to leave the newborn and her family behind...
Cash machines ran dry and stocks tumbled in India Wednesday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the withdrawal of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation in a dramatic blitz on tax evasion. In a televised address to the nation...
MANILA - Ex-Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos can be given a hero's burial, the Supreme Court decided Tuesday in a hugely controversial ruling which critics said would whitewash his crimes and divide the nation. The justices overwhelmingly endorsed President Rodrigo Duterte's...
Pro-democracy lawmakers slammed Beijing's interpretation of the Basic Law yesterday, accusing the central government of making changes to Hong Kong's mini-Constitution and further eroding the city's autonomy. By introducing new details unknown of in the past to Article 104 which...
