UNICEF said Tuesday that the recent deadly flooding in North Korea had washed entire communities away, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless with disease and malnutrition on the rise. At least 138 people have died and hundreds more are...
A pilot of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight accidentally pressed a hijack alarm, triggering a major security response at Manila airport on Tuesday, authorities said. Police isolated and surrounded the Saudia flight after it landed on Tuesday afternoon just after...
Getting hitched in China, and just about everywhere, is often a joyous affair, usually complete with ceremonious proceedings in various shades of red. The colour red, which symbolises prosperity and fortune, is used in many traditional Chinese festivals. Photo: InternetSo it...
Wildlife officials fanned out in Bangkok's famed Lumpini Park on Tuesday to trap and round up large lizards living there that imperil the fish and plant life and can startle unwary visitors. The water monitor lizards, which can grow up...
North Korea has successfully tested a new, high-powered rocket engine, state media said Tuesday, a move Seoul said was designed to showcase its progress towards being able to target the US east coast. The ground test comes less than two...
Harvard and Columbia university research showing smoke from land fires in Southeast Asia led to more than 100,000 premature deaths last year "makes no sense at all," an official at Indonesia's Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Indonesian government records show...
Divers say a towering coral known as the "Big Mushroom" at the heart of a world-famous dive site in Taiwan has been toppled after Typhoon Meranti struck last week. The super-typhoon was the strongest storm for 21 years to strike...
Finance professional Zhang Liang, 26, and his fiancee tend to shun high-altitude places in picking their holiday destinations, fearing the effects of acute mountain sickness. But Tibet's exotic culture and stunning landscape, despite its average altitude of 4,000m, proved too...
A Catholic bishop on Monday proposed that President Duterte implement a stronger antipoverty drive as well as an effective rehabilitation programme for drug dependents instead of extending his antidrug campaign. Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo offered this piece of advice...
The National Police's forensic laboratory has concluded an investigation into a blast on the Gili Cat 2 near Padangbai Harbor in Karangasem regency, Bali, on Thursday, saying no explosives were found on the fast boat. "The explosion was not triggered...
