JAKARTA - Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped another Indonesian sailor in the perilous waters of the Sulu Sea where dozens of seafarers have been abducted by Islamist extremists in recent months, officials said Sunday.The kidnapping took place Wednesday in waters...
SYDNEY- A Jetstar flight from Tokyo to Australia's Gold Coast was diverted to Guam and an engine was shut down Sunday after a warning light came on.The twin-engine JQ12 Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight from Narita international airport to the...
TOKYO - China has installed a radar with potential military functions in a disputed area of the East China Sea, Japanese media said Sunday, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the two countries.The Japanese foreign ministry said China...
YUSHU, China - Under a twinkling starlit sky, the glow of an electric light is the only sign that a Tibetan nomad's way of life has changed in hundreds of years.Yaks are still milked using wooden buckets with rope...
The futuristic public bus TEB-1 is just for tourism rather than for transport, local authorities said Friday in Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei province, where the elevated bus took its first road test on Tuesday.The concept of elevating the carriage...
Thailand votes on Sunday in a referendum on a new junta-backed constitution that would pave the way for a general election in 2017 but require future governments to rule on the military's terms.The referendum is the first major popularity...
Hong Kong - Hundreds gathered in Hong Kong to live out their childhood dream of catching Pokemon in the wild in what was billed as the city's first Pokemon Go walk Saturday.The gaming app landed in late July in...
Hong Kong - Chinese media on Saturday (Aug 6) dismissed Hong Kong's independence movement as a political "gimmick", following the city's first pro-independence rally that was attended by more than 2,000 people.The unprecedented rally saw people fill a park...
Tokyo - Some 230 Chinese fishing vessels and seven coast guard ships, including four apparently carrying weapons, sailed into waters close to disputed East China Sea islands on Saturday (Aug 6), Japan's foreign ministry and coastguard said.Six Chinese coast...
Manila - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to maintain his "shoot-to-kill" order against drug dealers while in office and says he "does not care about human rights".About 800 people have been killed since Duterte won a landslide election...
