BEIJING - Rescuers in China used a large excavator to break down a concrete wall and free three elephants stuck in a water-filled reservoir for more than two days, state media reported. The two adult elephants and calf were discovered...
A harrowing footage shows a man playing with his son in a supermarket in China when he accidentally topples backwards and crushes the child to death. In the horrifying video below, the man was walking in front of his son...
TOKYO - An internal investigation by the University of Toyama and other sources has revealed that a research centre at the university known for its work on tritium, a substance used to fuel nuclear fusion reactors, is feared to...
BANGKOK - Well-wishers kept up their vigil outside a Bangkok hospital on Thursday, offering prayers for ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej as deeply polarised Thailand faces the prospect of losing its figure of unity. Bhumibol, 88, is the world's longest serving...
BANGKOK - The health of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is "still unstable", the palace said late Wednesday, with the 88-year-old on a ventilator and battling a new infection as crowds gathered to pray outside his Bangkok hospital. Bhumibol is the...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region. Public health campaigners who have long battled against...
Most Filipinos trust and approve of President Rodrigo Duterte and his accomplishments in his first three months in office, according to the latest survey by Pulse Asia. The poll, conducted from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, said 86 per cent...
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Cold Dew, (Chinese: 寒露), the 17th solar term of the year, begins this year on Oct 8 and ends on Oct 23. At this time, temperatures are much...
The State Palace has agreed to Madame Tussauds Hong Kong's proposal to create a wax statue of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo. "We agreed . This wax statue can be one of the instruments to promote Indonesia as the museum is...
"It is in a girl's nature to wash dishes and so on. Her place is in the kitchen. That's how it's meant to be," said Kusnia, 35, a woman with one daughter from Lampung. Kusnia, a domestic worker in Jakarta,...
