DHAKA - Saudi Arabia has lifted a seven-year-old ban on the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers, Bangladesh said on Thursday.The decision came as thousands of workers, most of them from the Philippines and India, are stranded in Saudi Arabia after...
BEIJING - An explosion at a power station in China killed at least 21 people and injured five more on Thursday, the official Xinhua news service reported.The blast happened at a power plant in Dangyang, in the central province...
MANILA/HONG KONG - After unleashing a crackdown on drugs, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is turning his guns on a booming online gaming industry, abruptly scrapping one firm's 13-year monopoly this week and denouncing its billionaire chief as a corrupt...
TAIPEI - A seven-year-old male giraffe has died of anxiety after being caged and loaded onto a truck at a Taiwan zoo, the latest animal death to spark angry calls for tougher protection laws.The giraffe - named Hsiao Chiu...
TAIPEI - A seven-year-old male giraffe has died of anxiety after being caged and loaded onto a truck at a Taiwan zoo, the latest animal death to spark angry calls for tougher protection laws.The giraffe - named Hsiao Chiu...
BANGKOK - A new scheme that would allow Thai police to intercept telephone calls in national security cases has been put forward to cabinet for approval, police said on Thursday, a move that has alarmed rights groups.The move aims...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's government will face a grilling in the senate over its continued use of bogus bomb-detectors to secure high-value facilities, a lawmaker said Thursday, claiming the devices "endangered the lives of millions".A Pakistani government agency has built...
It's a heart-warming story that began more than a decade ago but is still used to inspire today - a poor construction worker in Vietnam who had little to his name used his own money to build a cemetery for...
JAKARTA - Tens of thousands of endangered Indonesian birds are being sold illegally at markets across the country, a wildlife trade watchdog warned Thursday, flouting laws aimed at protecting these species from extinction.Wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC recorded nearly...
TOKYO - Japan is searching for eight Chinese crew members who went missing when their fishing boat sank after colliding with a Greek cargo vessel near disputed East China Sea islands on Thursday, the Japanese coast guard said.The coast...
