A German-owned restaurant in Shanghai was ordered to close just one day after winning a Michelin star because it did not have a business license, the city's market watchdog said. Tai'an Table, on the first floor of a garden villa...
CHIBA, Japan - Strutting her stuff in a gold-hemmed mini-skirt, white leather boots and shaking silver pom-poms, octogenarian Fumie Takino has discovered her elixir of youth-cheerleading. She and her troupe of spirited grannies tweak the nose of old age, even...
BANGKOK - Authorities are preparing to set up an emergency flood-prevention barrier to protect the ancient Wat Chaiwatthanaram temple in Ayutthaya province as heavy rains continue to lash Thailand. Fine Arts Office 3 director Pratheep Pengtako said the Chao Phraya...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Fu Jen Catholic University announced the suspension of a school dean on Friday, who garnered public ire for allegedly covering up a campus sexual assault case. The press conference and protest came after the assault survivor, a...
TAIPEI - A Taiwanese court has sentenced a former intelligence officer to 18 years in prison for reportedly working as a double agent and spying for China as relations worsen with Beijing. Major Wang Tsung-wu was sentenced Thursday by Taiwan's...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Six Taiwanese tourists were reportedly robbed after falling into a deep sleep at a resort in Pattaya Thursday evening. The tourists, all women, found that over NT$63,300 (S$2,745) in cash had been stolen when they woke up...
BANGKOK - Thailand's first female prime minister on Sunday told the man who ousted her government two years ago to investigate his own brother over corruption allegations, in an unusually strong broadside against the junta. Yingluck Shinawatra was booted from...
DANANG, Vietnam - Japan's Aichi prefecture and its capital city Nagoya were confirmed as co-hosts of the 2026 Asian Games on Sunday, adding yet another major event to the country's bulging international sports calendar. The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)...
WAYANG WINDU - Columns of steam shoot from the ground at an Indonesian power plant sitting in the shadow of an active volcano, as energy is tapped from the red-hot underbelly of the archipelago. Pipes zig-zag up rugged mountainsides covered...
South Korea apparently has elite troops on standby ready to assassinate Kim Jong-un if they feel threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons, according to the country's defence minister. Fox59 reports that Han Min-koo was asked in a parliament session, "Are...
