JAKARTA - The country's meteorology agency predicts that hot spots in Riau and Kalimantan causing haze will not affect Batam because of the wind direction.Last year, haze blanketed Batam in Riau Islands. Hang Nadim International Airport, for example, lost...
TOKYO - Japanese beer imports to South Korea have been continuously increasing and there is significant room for market development.Japanese beer is becoming increasingly prominent in South Korea, where its popularity is growing mainly among young people due to...
MANILA - Philippine police, heavily criticised by rights groups for killing hundreds of drug dealers and users, are using a comedy puppet of Rodrigo Duterte to get the president's war on drugs message across to Manila school children.The Philippine...
TOKYO - A gunman who shot dead a construction worker and wounded three others at their office in Japan was on the run Monday, in a country where firearms violence is extremely rare.The Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported the suspect...
BANGKOK - Thai police identified on Monday a third suspect wanted in connection with a wave of bombs in tourist towns this month that killed four people and for the first time linked the attacks to Muslim separatists operating...
MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday (Aug 29) promised rewards running to tens of thousands of dollars for information leading to the capture of police officers protecting drug syndicates and warned corrupt officials they would face "a...
JAKARTA - A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest at a church during a Sunday service was "obsessed" with the extremist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a senior minister said on Monday (Aug...
Taipei- An unsupervised Taiwanese naval officer who decided to experiment with a missile launcher and accidentally fired towards China was one of three people charged Monday (Aug 29) over the fatal incident.The misfiring of the supersonic "aircraft carrier killer"...
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of reports China Daily will publish looking at the lives of elderly people, the problems they face and ongoing efforts to improve their standards of living. More stories will be...
A Thai man was homeless and jobless -- but that all changed when he was rewarded for his good karma.According to Coconuts Bangkok, Facebook user Tarika Patty said the unnamed homeless man had returned her boyfriend's wallet on Monday...
