BANGKOK - The long-delayed Sino-Thai high-speed railroad scheme looks set to shift into gear by year-end with Thailand funding all of the civil engineering work.After a long delay, the Sino-Thai high-speed railroad scheme looks set to shift into gear...
An unidentified fisherman in the Philippines kept a giant pearl that might just be the biggest ever under his bed for the last 10 years.The gem measuring around 30cm wide and 67cm long is heavier and larger than the...
SEOUL - North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about 500 km (311 miles) towards Japan, a show of improving technological capability for the isolated country that has conducted a series of launches in defiance of...
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Bangkok - A large car bomb blew up outside a hotel in Thailand's insurgency-plagued southern region late Tuesday, killing one and wounding more than 30 people, some of them critically, police said.Although the area is not popular with tourists,...
SINGAPORE - If you think the Pokemon Go craze in Singapore is bad, wait till you watch this.A Facebook video showing a stampede in Taipei has been making its rounds online, with the purported cause for the panic being...
SEOUL - The South Korean health authorities said on Tuesday (Aug 23) that the country has confirmed the first case of cholera in 15 years in Gwangju. It is the first time that a local citizen has been infected...
TOKYO - Foreign ministers from Japan, China and South Korea kicked off a two-day meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday with their countries at odds over territorial disputes, a US missile defence system and perennial regional problem North Korea.Japanese Foreign...
TOKYO - Japanese whalers on Tuesday celebrated what they described as a court victory in the US to end years of high seas clashes with anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, which immediately vowed to fight on.The arch enemies have waged...
BANGKOK - A Thai military court accepted a case on Tuesday against eight people charged with ridiculing junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha on Facebook, extending a crackdown against dissent after Thais voted earlier this month to accept a military-backed charter.The...
SEOUL - North Korea has been laying fresh landmines on its side of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) with South Korea, the UN Command said Tuesday, following a spate of high-profile defections.Military personnel were seen planting mines on the North's...
