Hong Kong - Hong Kong hunkered down Monday as Typhoon Nida swirled towards the coast of southern China, with more than a hundred flights cancelled and schools closed.Authorities are expected to raise a "T8" storm signal -- the third-highest...
A Japanese citizen has been investigated on suspicion of endangering China's state security, the Foreign Ministry told China Daily on Sunday.The ministry's spokesperson's office did not elaborate on the identity of the detained Japanese, saying only that the investigation...
More than half of married Korean men have had extramarital affairs at least once in their lives, while 40 per cent of them think "buying sex is not cheating," a study showed on Monday.The study was jointly compiled by...
Seoul - Seoul prosecutors on Monday accused North Korea of hacking into the email accounts of dozens of South Korean government officials this year, the latest in the series of suspected cyber attacks by Pyongyang.Investigations showed a "suspected North...
Phnom Penh - A Vietnamese man has claimed he is the real father of a woman whose plight gripped Cambodia after she apparently spent 18 years living in the jungle, her adoptive family said Monday.The paternity claim, which the...
Tokyo - Tokyo's new governor Yuriko Koike on Monday credited her landslide victory to having stood up to the powers that be in Japan's ruling party who didn't want her to run.Koike, 64, was elected Tokyo's first female governor...
Violent crime rates in Japan are dropping and homicide rates are at all-time lows, but the mass killing last Tuesday by a 26-year-old influenced by Adolf Hitler has cast a harsh glare on murders committed by disaffected youth here.A...
Taipei - President Tsai Ing-wen formally apologised to Taiwan's indigenous people for their centuries of suffering on Monday, the country's first ever leader to do so.Tsai, the island's only leader with aboriginal blood, will personally head a committee to...
Manila - Mario Dimaculangan shares a toilet with 130 other inmates in one of the Philippines' most overcrowded jails, and conditions are getting worse as police wage an unprecedented war on crime.Security forces have killed hundreds of people and...
TOKYO - Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first woman governor on Sunday, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city's preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games.Yuriko Koike, Japan's first female defence minister,...
