HONG KONG - British banker Rurik Jutting calmly detailed to police his cocaine-fuelled descent into a torture and killing binge that ended in the deaths of two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment, according to videos shown...
TAIPEI - Hostages were forced to eat mice, scorpions and centipedes to survive during the nearly five years they were held by Somali pirates, according to a Taiwanese seafarer who arrived home Wednesday. Shen Jui-chang, among 26 hostages freed from...
TOKYO - A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered millions of dollars compensation be paid to families of children swept out to sea by a massive 2011 tsunami. The Sendai District Court in northern Japan ruled two local governments must pay...
HONG KONG - British banker Rurik Jutting who is accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his upscale Hong Kong apartment was a cocaine addict who had developed drug-induced fantasies, a court heard Wednesday. The 31-year-old Cambridge graduate and former...
Filming himself torturing and killing a young Indonesian woman, British investment banker Rurik Jutting veered between boasting, remorse and describing the pleasure he derived from sexually brutalising the first of two victims. Footage taken from four hours of recordings on...
South-east Asia runs the risk of becoming the next battleground for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as the militant group loses territory in the Middle East. Experts and local authorities say they fear that ISIS, which has...
Japan's export engine built around cars and electronics has stalled, but the future could be using the country's gourmet culture to cast itself as a purveyor of high-quality food. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to increase agriculture exports by a...
A whale that ran aground was saved Monday in the city of Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong Province. Local villagers found the five-meter-long grey-colored whale lying on the beach 20 meters away from the shoreline, breathing feebly due to dehydration and...
Jakarta - Southeast Asia faces a growing risk of extremist violence as Islamic State group supporters increasingly work together, but law enforcement agencies are unprepared for the new threat, a report warned Tuesday. The main danger lies in the strife-torn...
BANGKOK - Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra can appeal a 35 billion baht (S$1.39 billion) fine imposed on her in connection with a rice-subsidy scheme, the junta chief said on Tuesday in his first public comment since the...
