DHAKA - A Bangladeshi charity on Thursday (Sep 22) buried the five extremists behind July's devastating attack on a Dhaka cafe after their families refused to take the bodies, police said. The five shot and hacked to death 20 foreign...
HAVANA - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Cuba on Thursday for the first-ever visit to the country by a Japanese premier, saying he wants to "open a new page" in relations. Abe is due to meet Cuban President Raul...
BEIJING - China has removed an almost 13-year-old ban on some US beef products, its quality inspection regulator said Thursday. A ban on imports of "American bone-in beef and boneless beef for cattle under 30 months" has been lifted effective...
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck southeast of Tokyo on Friday morning, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake's epicentre was 232 kms (144 miles) southeast of the Japanese capital at a shallow depth of...
HANOI - Vietnam is trying to raise the retirement age of both men and women to mitigate the economic impact of a rapidly ageing population and take pressure off of its depleted social welfare funds. The Labour Ministry wants to...
Taipei - Taiwan's government has ordered a freeze on the opposition Kuomintang's bank account, officials said Thursday, as part of an investigation into its allegedly ill-gotten political assets. The order comes as political tensions remain high on the deeply divided...
Hong Kong - Hong Kong police have arrested more than 2,000 people in raids on suspected criminal triad gangs, with the city's underworld in the spotlight after a lawmaker received death threats. The raids, which started in late July, have...
Taipei - Taiwan's leading museum said Thursday it will remove statues donated by actor Jackie Chan that were attacked by anti-China protesters late last year, as relations sour between the island and Beijing. The set of 12 zodiac animal sculptures...
Sydney - Possible debris from missing passenger jet MH370 handed over by a US amateur investigator was not "exposed to heat or fire", Australian authorities said Thursday, following speculation it was blackened by flames. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB),...
San Kay Khine stares at her burnt, scarred hands, her twisted fingers a reminder of her years as a child slave in Myanmar, one of thousands of young domestic workers feared to be at risk of exploitation and abuse. The...
