JAKARTA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - An Indonesian court jailed a woman for 20 years on Thursday for murdering her college friend by poisoning her coffee, ending a dramatic case that gripped the country for months. Jessica Kumala Wongso, 27, an...
BEIJING - China's latest drill in the South China Sea was a normal search and rescue exercise, the defence ministry said on Thursday, less than a week after a US navy destroyer sailed near the Paracel Islands, provoking a warning...
HONG KONG - British banker Rurik Jutting calmly described to police graphic photos of an Indonesian woman he had killed at his luxury apartment in Hong Kong, according to video footage shown in court Thursday. The 31-year-old Cambridge graduate and...
TOKYO - Protocol-conscious Japanese were on faux pas alert Thursday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte due to meet Emperor Akihito, the nation's most revered figure. Duterte, who has made a habit of hurling sharp, even profane, insults at world figures,...
Hundreds of people packed out an Indonesian court on Thursday (Oct 27) for the verdict in the sensational trial of a young woman accused of murdering her college friend with poisoned coffee at an upmarket cafe. Police were deployed around...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has a chance to stay in power through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and become the country's longest-ruling leader after his party decided this week to allow its presidents to serve a third straight three-year...
Indonesia is among the top-five most improved nations worldwide with regard to ease of doing business, but it is no time for complacency as President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's ambitious target remains unmet. The country's ranking on the ease-of-doing-business index in...
Moments before surrendering to police after killing two Indonesian women in his high rise Hong Kong apartment two years ago, British banker Rurik Jutting shouted and waved a knife at pedestrians on the streets far below, a court heard...
TOKYO - President Duterte on Wednesday assured Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he struck no military alliance with China and that he would insist on the rule of law in the South China Sea. Abe, in turn, supported Mr. Duterte's...
PORTOROZ, Slovenia - Japan pleaded with the world's whaling watchdog Wednesday to allow small hunts by coastal communities, arguing that for three decades these groups had been unjustly barred from a traditional source of food. The issue of "small type...
