MANILA - The most senior US diplomat for Asia has arrived in the Philippines and will meet the country's foreign minister on Monday amid confusion over the status of ties between the two long-time allies, said the US embassy...
YUEYANG - A mother preoccupied with her mobile phone in China let her two-year-old daughter wander ahead - only to see the little girl fatally struck by a car. The incident, which took place in Yueyang, in China's Hunan province,...
DALIAN - An alleged molester who tried to attack his victim on a bus had the tables turned on him when other passengers beat him up instead. The man, surnamed Di, allegedly molested two women on a crowded public bus...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's chai-making sensation has a name, people. It's Arshad Khan. And we're likely to get to know him better because he's on his way to possible stardom. Retail site fitin.pk has signed on Arshad as a model - for...
TOKYO - Two near-simultaneous blasts in a Japanese park on Sunday (Oct 23) injured at least three people, with one of them in critical condition, the local fire department said. The explosions occurred at a park in Utsunomiya, some 100km...
BENGALURU, India - They are not easy to spot. Working in vegetable patches and on millet fields in India's southern state of Karnataka, farm labourers caught in debt bondage suffer mainly in silence. But Gopal V has lived with this...
Sanam Luang and surrounding roads were turned into a sea of black yesterday as a massive crowd of mourners from all over the country joined the heartfelt singing of the Royal Anthem in a historic assembly in memory of...
BEIJING - The leaders of the world's most powerful political party gather in Beijing on Monday for a conclave that could change the course of Chinese history. In meetings at the exclusive Jinxi Hotel, safe from the public's prying eyes,...
DAVAO CITY - President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he would invite for coffee the police officer who rammed into Wednesday's protest line outside the US Embassy in Manila to ask him why he did it. "I will try to...
TOKYO - The first woman to conquer Mount Everest, Junko Tabei of Japan, died aged 77, media reported Saturday (Oct 22). Tabei died of peritoneal cancer on Thursday (Oct 20) at a hospital in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Japan's public...
