NEW DELHI - India has lifted restrictions placed on using and carrying Samsung Electronics Co's Galaxy Note 7 mobile phones on commercial airplanes, but only for devices purchased after Sept. 15, 2016, the country's aviation regulator said. The Directorate General...
Suspected insurgents shot dead a female petrol-station employee in Pattani's Khok Pho district yesterday afternoon and then set off two home-made bombs, injuring seven people, as state officers responded to the shooting. Around 20 minutes after Teerapat Chantharojwong, 31, was...
BEIJING - Millions of Chinese tourists are packing their bags for distant and not-too distant shores for the National Day holiday, with early indicators pointing to a slump in bookings for neighbouring Taiwan and Hong Kong. The "Golden Week" break,...
A national list of architectural masterpieces was released in Beijing on Thursday to remind people of disappearing heritage. Ninety-eight sites were inscribed into the first edition of the 20th-Century Chinese Architectural Heritage List, which was drafted by the Chinese Society...
BANGKOK - Thailand confirmed on Friday that Zika had caused two cases of microcephaly, a condition that results in babies being born with small heads, the first time microcephaly had been linked to Zika in Southeast Asia. "To summarise we...
MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country. In a rambling speech on his...
A 52-year-old Taiwanese fruiterer found herself unexpectedly famous after the Wall Street Journal published a photograph of her to illustrate its story on Typhoon Megi. The woman, whom Taiwan's Apple Daily named as Mrs Dai, was chomping on a pork...
NEW DELHI - Beyond Thursday's raid by Indian special forces into Pakistan's side of divided Kashmir, New Delhi is considering new economic and diplomatic measures to bring pressure to bear on its neighbour, Indian officials said. In a rare public...
Philippine military authorities announced last week the first large-scale combat exercises between United States and Filipino forces under the Duterte administration, in a dramatic rebuff of its criticism of US security policies. The announcement came on the heels of a...
PETALING JAYA: A buzzing sex toy mistaken for a bomb delayed a Thai AirAsia flight to Bangkok on Wednesday morning. Britain's Daily Star reported that the vibrator caused panic among staff when they heard a loud humming as they were...
