A group of knitters from Singapore have put their hobby to good use - by producing over 2,500 pieces of winter wear out of 500,000 metres of yarn for underprivileged children in northern Thailand. "This is a record for us...
Monks and nuns in dazzling robes had taken to the catwalk. Some even chanted sutras in music clubs, while temples have rolled out match-making services, cafes and even a beauty salon. Japan has seen such trendy outreach methods to lure...
JAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo called for calm after a violent protest by hardline Muslims last week, yet it was his khaki bomber jacket that excited social media and triggered a rush by Indonesians to snap up similar...
BEIJING - China Monday passed a controversial cyber-security bill further tightening restrictions on online freedom of speech, raising concerns that it could intensify already wide-ranging Internet censorship. The ruling Communist Party oversees a vast censorship system - dubbed the Great...
HANOI - Floods in Vietnam's central, central highland and southern provinces have left 15 people dead and six missing and displaced thousands, the Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Monday. Flooding from very heavy rain brought by...
KUALA LUMPUR - Brunei's second-largest daily newspaper, the Brunei Times, published its final edition on Monday, after abruptly announcing plans for closure over the weekend, triggering online speculation about the reason. The daily, which was launched in 2006, announced on...
TOKYO - A five-year-old Japanese boy was burnt to death after a wooden jungle gym display created for a Tokyo arts festival suddenly caught fire, reports and officials said Monday. The freak conflagration on Sunday, caused flames to shoot metres...
BANGKOK - Thailand's rice committee announced new loan schemes worth US$514 million (S$ 714 million)on Monday to help rice growers struggling with falling prices as farmers of the grain become the new battleground between the junta and the opposition...
Hong Kong - Hong Kong's leader said Monday that he would "fully implement" a ruling by Beijing which effectively bars two elected pro-independence lawmakers from the city's legislature after they deliberately misread their oaths of office. An oath that did...
The prosecution Sunday (Nov 6) questioned President Park Geun-hye's confidante and former aides in relation to an influence-peddling scandal, as investigation zeroed in on what role the president played. Early in the morning, An Chong-bum, a former senior presidential secretary...
