LANGFANG, CHINA - A video of a man assaulting a woman viciously in a lift after she asked him to stop smoking has sparked furore after it was circulated on China's social media. The surveillance camera footage captured the man...
A cold autumn wind blew across the Loess Plateau in Huachi county, Gansu province, but beads of sweat were rolling down the face of Qu Shuanling in her yaodong, a type of cave dwelling common in the area. With...
Tens of thousands of black-clad Thais gathered outside Bangkok's Grand Palace on Saturday to sing the royal anthem in a striking display of devotion to the recently deceased King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The monarch, who died on October 13 following years...
"The strong gale almost blew me away," said Huang Rongjun, a resident in the city of Shanwei, after Typhoon Haima made landfall in Guangdong province. "I was all wet when I returned home at noon, and I saw many umbrellas...
The Ningbo Municipal Tourism Administration posted a notice on its Weibo account on Wednesday calling on Chinese tourists to adopt civilised behaviour when travelling abroad. A man, surnamed Li, and his wife were part of a tour group that began...
China and the Philippines agreed on Thursday to properly handle their maritime disputes and restore the bilateral ties soured by the South China Sea dispute. The development is a "welcome U-turn" in the bilateral ties, said Jia Duqiang, a...
BEIJING - For agreeing to return to the negotiating table to settle a dispute in the South China Sea, the Philippines is getting US$9 billion (S$12.6 billion) in soft loans from China, part of the US$13.5 billion in deals signed...
BANGKOK - Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday vowed to fight against an administrative order that instructed her to pay for massive losses incurred in the rice-pledging scheme. She said the government's order for her to pay Bt35.7...
MANILA - Agents of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested a Japanese fugitive wanted by authorities in Tokyo for involvement in a multimillion-dollar electronic fraud scam. Keiji Yuasa, 63 was arrested in Binangonan town in the province of Rizal by members of...
China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest iOS app market in the third quarter, according to a report released on Thursday by App Annie, a US-based mobile analytics company. The company said that with 75 per...
