SHANGHAI - A Shanghai restaurant has closed down just a day after being awarded a coveted star in the Michelin guide's first mainland Chinese edition. Taian Table - one of 26 restaurants in the city to receive Michelin stars -...
Ever wondered what goes behind the scenes in the making of a vehicle? Well, recently, a group of journalists got a glimpse of how Toyota conducts its safety crash tests. It is the first time in five years that the motoring...
Fifteen-year-old Li Bingzhi left Beijing for a boarding school in south-west England at the beginning of this month. At her new school, she is able to go to bed on time and enjoy physical education (PE) classes regularly. This would...
Bangkok - Three foreigners belonging to a suspected passport forgery ring were charged Saturday after police found them with drugs, guns and a dismembered body stashed in the freezer of a Bangkok building. Police said they are trying to confirm...
The Culture Ministry's decision to red-flag a music video "Tiew Thai Me Hey" that promotes Thai tourism via Khon characters has drawn even more attention to the controversy. The ministry said scenes showing the Ramakien epic character Thotsakan (Ravana) on...
Alibaba's logistics arm, Cainiao Network, set up the world's highest delivery service station in Southwest China's Tibet to expand businesses and services to far remote areas. Located in Tashi Dzom in Tingri county with the altitude of 4,119 meters at...
MANILA - A Philippine senator believes that President Rodrigo Duterte's 'colourful language' will not scare off investors. For as long as President Rodrigo Duterte's verbal tirades do not "metamorphose" into official state policy, then no great harm is done, "except maybe...
MANILA - Days after being released by his Abu Sayyaf captors, Kjartan Sekkingstad has flown back to Oslo, this as the bandit group released another one of its Indonesian hostages. Abu Sayyaf gunmen have released an Indonesian captive in Sulu province,...
A murder suspect accused of decapitating a four-year-old girl got on his knees and asked for forgiveness from the victim's mother in a Taipei court on Thursday (Sept 22). Suspect Wang Ching-yu, 33, has been charged with the murder of...
DAVAO, Philippines - A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck off the Philippine's Mindanao island on Saturday, sending hotel guests and construction workers running from buildings in Davao, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The US Geological Survey...
