Indian police said Monday (Oct 3) they have taken a pigeon into custody after it was found carrying a warning note to Prime Minister Narendra Modi near the nation's heavily militarised border with Pakistan. Border Security Force (BSF) officers found...
Mohammad Iftakar waits with sweets and gifts at the Wagah border crossing, a lifeline for families violently separated during the founding of India and Pakistan, fearful of dangerous new divisions as hostilities flare once again. Like many other Indians, he...
Many Malaysians believe that after the hudud law was implemented, women in Brunei, including non-Muslims, must be very conservatively dressed. But we saw that most non-Muslim women there do not put on headscarves and some are sporting shorts and singlets...
BANGKOK - How does one draw attention to roads which need to be badly fixed? For some Thai women, the answer is taking a bath in the offending potholes, according to a report by the BBC. Bangkok-based model Palm was frustrated...
Brunei is a small country with a population of only about 400,000, of whom 67 per cent are Muslims, 13 per cent Buddhists, 10 per cent Christians and 10 per cent other religions. Do the one third of non-Muslims in...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday apologised to Jews for comparing himself with Adolf Hitler but said he did nothing wrong and reiterated his desire to kill millions of drug addicts. Duterte, whose bloody war on crime had already drawn...
PAKISTAN- Pakistani military officials point to an Indian army post high on a forested ridge along the Line of Control dividing Kashmir, insisting any incursions are impossible, after skirmishes ignited dangerous tensions between the nuclear rivals. The army took the...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday sought to douse global anger over his remarks likening his brutal anti-crime war to Adolf Hitler's massacre of over six million Jews. "We do not wish to diminish the profound loss of six million Jews...
Mr Nigel Kow had a bad scare on a mountain in Nepal two years ago. "Part of my rope slipped off a rock and I swung away from the cliff face, and then crashed back into it," said Mr Kow,...
MANILA - Abu Sayyaf rebels linked to Islamic State freed three more Indonesian captives on Sunday after a three-month ordeal, the Philippine government said, taking the number of hostages released to nine in the past two weeks. They were handed...
