Migrant worker Shi Shenwei turns up at the construction site where he's helping to build a new temple. It's the start of another gruelling 10-hour day on the job. But Shi has another string to his bow. The 23-year-old's achieved internet stardom...
YANGON - The dart hits a fleeing street dog in the thigh, the bright orange tip sagging against his brown and white fur as he slows to a halt, his limbs succumbing to the sedatives. The mutt is one of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - President Duterte has offered a P2 million (S$57,000) reward for anyone who can give information about police officers engaged in the illegal drug trade and other criminal activities. "P2 million per head, special price because they are...
MANILA - Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said that actress Agot Isidro with her "beggar's mentality" was exactly the kind of person President Rodrigo Duterte was targeting in his speech against over-dependence on foreign aid. "Her position is the kind of...
TOKYO - A Tokyo burger joint is getting its customers in on the US election action by asking them to choose the better burger from two representing US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. In this gastronomic contest being held...
A series of multi-storey buildings built by local villagers and packed with migrant workers collapsed in China on Monday, killing at least 17 people, the government and reports said. Four residential buildings caved in during the early hours at Wenzhou...
China will complete the first phase of an expansive new airport in Beijing, which could eventually be the world's largest, by 2019, officials with the project told reporters. Representatives of the Beijing New Airport project showed off the sprawling construction...
Myanmar has stepped up security in a Muslim-majority region near its border with Bangladesh, officials said on Monday, as authorities hunt for attackers who killed at least nine police officers. Officials believe that members of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority...
Since the National Day holiday or the Golden Week, one of the country's biggest holidays of the year was established on Oct 1, 1999, Chinese people have never stopped showing their love to it. Statistics show that about 28 million...
Eight people were declared dead after four residential buildings in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, collapsed on the early morning of Monday. Rescuers are still verifying the number of people buried under debris. The disaster happened around 4 am in Wenzhou's...
