Singapore's Foreign Affairs Ministry has sent a diplomatic note to the Indonesian authorities against the detention of a Singaporean boat captain held in custody, despite a court acquitting him of fishing illegally in the country's waters. Indonesian ambassador to Singapore...
TOKYO - The cyber theft of 1.8 billion yen (S$24 million) in May from ATMs at convenience stores across Japan is now confirmed to be the work of at least six of the country's yakuza syndicates, which had apparently...
JAKARTA - Police have arrested an information technology expert who allegedly hacked the system of a jumbotron on Jl. Wijaya, South Jakarta, and made it display a porn movie last Friday afternoon. The police apprehended the suspect, identified as SAR,...
Ngurah Rai International Airport customs and excise personnel have arrested a Singapore Airlines (SIA) cabin crew member on allegations of smuggling drugs into Bali. The suspect, identified as Goh Tiam Ann Desmond, a 42-year-old Singaporean citizen, was arrested upon arrival...
A group of Koreans in Japan were reportedly outraged over a sushi restaurant in Osaka where too much wasabi was served -- particularly to Korean customers. According to the local Japanese media Monday, well-known sushi chain Ichiba Sushi "wasabi terrorised"...
BANGKOK - A teenage Hong Kong student leader who helped organise massive pro-democracy protests in the Chinese-ruled city in 2014 was detained on arrival in Thailand on Wednesday and barred entry, immigration officials and supporters said, apparently at China's...
MANILA - Firebrand Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte told US President Barack Obama to "go to hell" Tuesday, as he threatened to end his nation's decades-old alliance with the United States in favour of China and Russia. The fresh tirade came...
YANGON - Myanmar on Tuesday scrapped a law used by the former military government to silence political activists, which threatened jail for anyone who endangered public morality or execution for damaging telephone lines. The Emergency Provisions Act, passed in 1950...
BANGKOK - As Thailand's rainy season peaks, the government is taking steps to avoid a repeat of devastating floods in 2011 that killed hundreds of people and cost billions of dollars, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday. Floods in...
JAKARTA - Indonesia's air force is holding its largest military exercise this week, near some of its islands in the South China Sea, in a show of sovereignty over the gas-rich area on the fringe of territory claimed by...
