"Dear Thelma" is a relationship advice column that appears in The Star, a publication that is part of the Asia News Network. Dear Thelma, I am a senior citizen with two wonderful sons. Both are married and doing well. I want to...
The West Nusa Tenggara Social Affairs, Population and Civil Registration Agency has dispatched a team to help identify victims of a fatal boat accident in Batam, Riau Islands. "We dispatched a team to Batam today to account for Indonesian migrant...
ISLAMABAD - Two trains collided in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, police said, in the country's second major rail collision in less than two months. Television footage showed mangled and overturned carriages,...
Hong Kong - Stay and endure a life of privation and oppression or escape and risk being sold into sexual slavery: this is the stark choice facing many women in North Korean, bestselling author and activist Hyeonseo Lee warns. The...
Would you race to save your child from oncoming traffic? What if it was someone else's child? Would you still risk your life? A clip shared on YouTube raises these questions, sparking a heated debate among netizens. The video shows a...
SITTWE, Myanmar - Myanmar police will begin arming and training non-Muslim residents in the troubled north of Rakhine State, where officials say militants from the Rohingya Muslim group pose a growing security threat, police and civilian officials said. Human rights...
JAKARTA - Thousands of hardline Muslims are expected to take to the streets on Friday to protest against the governor of Jakarta, a Christian and the first ethnic Chinese in the job, over claims he insulted the Quran. Jakarta police...
The culturally iconic haenyeo, or female divers, of Jeju Island are likely to get a nod from Unesco. If so, they would be classified under the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of Unesco, according to the Cultural Heritage Administration on...
Peshawar, Pakistan - A Pakistani court refused bail Wednesday to an Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover after she was arrested in Pakistan and accused of being one of thousands of refugees using fake ID cards. Pakistan last...
Prosecutors on Wednesday requested an arrest warrant for Choi Soon-sil, President Park Geun-hye's confidante suspected of meddling in state affairs and siphoning public funds. Choi, a 60-year-old civilian who is a longtime friend of Park and the daughter of Park's...
