The number of centenarians in Japan has hit another annual high, according to statistics released by the welfare ministry on Tuesday ahead of Respect-for-the-Aged Day next Monday. According to the Japanese health ministry, the number of centenarians as of Sept....
JAKARTA - Indonesia will resume land reclamation that will help prevent Jakarta from sinking below sea level, a cabinet minister said, five months after work was suspended due to regulatory and environmental concerns. Greater Jakarta, one of the world's most...
SEOUL - North Korea will have enough material for about 20 nuclear bombs by the end of this year, with ramped-up uranium enrichment facilities and an existing stockpile of plutonium, according to new assessments by weapons experts. The North has...
SEOUL - North Korea on Wednesday accused the United States of pushing the Korean Peninsula to "the point of explosion" after it dispatched two huge bombers in a show of force against Pyongyang. The supersonic B-1B Lancers flew over South...
NEW DELHI/KATHMANDU - India is likely to offer Nepal's new prime minister help building an east-west railway line and better access to its ports on his first visit this week, as it tries to regain ground lost recently to...
BEIJING - China's Communist-controlled legislature on Tuesday (Sept 13) unseated 45 deputies from the north-eastern province of Liaoning for involvement in electoral fraud, the official Xinhua news agency said, in an "unprecedented" case. The standing committee of the National People's...
After a long, sweaty summer, some firms in a nation renowned for its cleanliness are declaring all-out war on an office plague known as "smell harassment". Telling a colleague they stink is touchy stuff, of course. But personal care product maker...
BEIJING - China has managed to raise the proportion of the population which can speak the national language, Mandarin, but still faces difficulty in remote areas and places where ethnic minorities live, state media said on Tuesday. As of the...
Beijing - The killing of four children by their poverty-stricken mother - who then committed suicide, followed by her husband - sparked online outrage and debate in China Tuesday over the gap between rich and poor. Yang Gailan, 28, used...
JOHOR BARU - Several Malaysian families currently in Bangalore, India on vacation and business trips are stuck in their hotels after a curfew was imposed following riots in the city due to water disputes between two states there. They were...
