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TOKYO - Four Chinese vessels sailed into territorial waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea, Japan said Sunday, as Tokyo attempts to engage with Beijing to press North Korea over its latest nuclear test. The four coastguard vessels...
BANGKOK - Twenty-one new cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus have been confirmed in central Bangkok, including a pregnant woman who later gave birth with no complications, Thailand's public health ministry said on Sunday. Residents in the Thai capital were urged...
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DHAKA - Bangladesh firefighters were struggling Sunday to search a packaging factory following a major blaze that killed 25 people amid fears more bodies could still be inside the destroyed building. Around 100 people were working at the factory on Saturday...
Earlier this year, Mr Julien La Chon bought a country house in the south of France. Knowing how much his father loves playing handyman, he invited the 71-year-old to fix a couple of things on the property. Over the three days...
Pay a landowner in Sumatra as little as 500,000 rupiah, or just S$52, and he will clear his land for farming using the easiest and cheapest method possible - fire. Throw in a few hundred dollars more and he will...
BEIJING - Days after Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong died 40 years ago the problem of what to do with his corpse was becoming increasingly heated - literally. Mao himself had requested cremation, but powerful officials including his mercurial...
DHAKA - At least 25 people have been killed and 70 injured, many critically, in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi packaging factory, officials said yesterday as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze. Around 100...
Three-year-old Yoyo has a special friend in his home this summer. Isabell Rohde, 18, from Spangenberg, a small town in central Germany, is spending six months as an au pair with Yoyo's family in southwest China's Chongqing. Like many European peers,...
KOTA KINABALU - Five Malaysian hostages are on the run with their Abu Sayyaf captors in the mountainous jungles of Jolo amid an intensely sustained Philippines military offensive against the militants. Jolo anti-kidnapping activist Prof Octavio Dinampo said the five Malaysians,...
Taipei - The deadly bus crash in Taiwan that killed an entire Chinese tour group was caused by a "suicidal" driver who intentionally set the vehicle on fire, investigators said Saturday. Authorities had earlier said the driver Su Ming-cheng had...
