Monday marks one year since the lifting of an evacuation order for Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, that was imposed following the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.However, less than 10 per cent...
A post from the Humans of Seoul Facebook page features a photo of a 20 or 30-something-year-old man with a short crown top hat and two suitcases, accompanied by a childhood episode about his brother's damaged hearing after a...
As Laos gets ready to host two ASEAN summits back to back this week from tomorrow, one leader who will get much media attention will be President Rodrigo Duterte.The newly-elected Philippine leader may be very popular in his country...
A Chinese official confronted US President Barack Obama's national security adviser on the tarmac on Saturday prompting the Secret Service to intervene, an unusual altercation as China implements strict controls ahead of a big summit.The stakes are high for...
HONG KONG - A new generation of young Hong Kong politicians advocating a break from Beijing looked set to become lawmakers for the first time Monday in the biggest poll since mass pro-democracy rallies in 2014.A record 2.2 million...
8-year-old Xu Ziqi is to perform Me and my motherland with renowned baritone Liao Changyong at the G20 Summit evening gala at West Lake tonight.Xu was born in 2008 and is a second grader in Hangzhou.Li Jun, Xu's mother,...
MANILA - The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping with a local tradition to symbolically peck at the conscience...
HONOLULU - Decades of conservation work in China have paid off for the giant panda, whose status was upgraded Sunday from "endangered" to "vulnerable" due to a population rebound, officials said.The improvement for the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was...
Thailand's 88-year-old king, the world's longest reigning monarch, has shown signs of improvement following treatment for a blood infection, the palace said in a statement on Sunday.King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been treated for various ailments during a year-long hospitalisation...
The global economy is being threatened by rising protectionism and risks from highly leveraged financial markets, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the open of a two-day summit of leaders from G20 nations.His warning on Sunday followed bilateral talks...
