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*/ Thai citizens started wearing pink en masse yesterday...
Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday ordered relevant agencies to determine the cause of the recent multiple deaths of giant freshwater stingrays. Meanwhile, Samut Songkhram officials are planning to set up a "war room" to coordinate efforts to establish whether a...
SEOUL - North Korea has purged its vice foreign minister as punishment for the recent defection of the nuclear-armed country's deputy ambassador to Britain, South Korean media reported Wednesday. The mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo, quoting an anonymous source familiar with North...
TOKYO - Tomokazu Suzuki wants to open a sushi restaurant in Hawaii with his father, a sushi chef. "That has always been my father's dream," Suzuki said. "It's mine now, too." This wasn't his initial plan. After graduating from a...
A British man and an Australian woman accused of violently bludgeoning a policeman to death on a popular Indonesian tourist strip will soon stand trial for his murder, an official said Tuesday. David Taylor and Sara Connor face three separate...
About 250 Philippine business executives will visit Beijing with President Rodrigo Duterte next week as he puts aside years of hostility to seek a new partnership with China at a time when tensions between Manila and its traditional ally,...
A little girl protected by the embrace of her dead father was the last survivor pulled out of the rubble of collapsed multi-storey buildings in China, reports said Tuesday. She was found deep in the debris of four six-storey residential...
BANGKOK - Police in Thailand on Tuesday said they have increased security at major landmarks in the capital Bangkok, at airports and in surrounding provinces following reports of bomb plots just weeks after deadly attacks rocked the country's south. An...
Many have suffered injuries or lost their lives after slipping off a cliff while trying to capture a perfect shot of themselves with a scenic backdrop. But an unexpected selfie mishap occurred when the victim was standing on what was...
A superb imperial matchlock musket will be sold at Sotheby's in London in November with an estimated price of 1.5 million pounds (S$2.5 million). This rare and exquisitely produced musket is the first Chinese firearm with an imperial reign mark...
