SEOUL - South Korea's presidential office on Wednesday named a new prime minister and finance minister in the wake of a scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and a friend who allegedly meddled with state affairs. The Blue House said it...
Hanoi - A fire at a karaoke bar killed 13 people and injured two police officers in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, an official said Wednesday. The blaze started Tuesday afternoon in the busy Cau Giay district and quickly spread...
Marriage lies far in the future for many children, but one non-profit organisation in Japan has launched an initiative to have youngsters think about the prospect by watching mock weddings. Other organisations are also trying to make young people consider...
A leukaemia-stricken man from Xuzhou in China's Jiangsu province, whom doctors said had only six months to live, was saved when his eight-year-old son donated his bone marrow. The boy, Cao Yinpeng, put on 10kg in two months to qualify...
Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the centre of a scandal dominating South Korean politics, is now in custody and faces allegations of exerting undue influence over President Park Geun-hye in state policies and projects. The scandal is South Korea's biggest...
South Korean prosecutors plan to summon former Presidential Secretary An Chong-bum on Wednesday on his alleged connection to the scandal that President Park Geun-hye allowed her old friend Choi Soon-sil to meddle in state affairs, officials said Tuesday. Senior Presidential...
TOKYO - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Japan on Tuesday to court investment and aid, as an upsurge in violence against a persecuted Muslim minority at home posed the worst crisis of her six months in...
BANGKOK - Restrictions on entertainment and television in Thailand, in place since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, will be lifted on Nov 14, the prime minister said on Tuesday, though he urged respectful behaviour and programmes for a...
It seems electronics manufacturer Samsung is hit but yet another scandal - this time on social media after a photograph of Chinese executives bowing deeply on stage was circulated online. The gesture which took place at a dealers' meeting at...
SEOUL - When the lawyer representing the woman at the centre of a scandal engulfing South Korean President Park Geun-hye met his client upon her arrival in the country from Germany on Sunday morning, he was blunt. "I told her:...
