BEIJING - Border police seized 399 baby Siamese crocodiles, a protected endangered species, in southern China, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.The roughly 25-cm long crocodiles were about 15 days old and were likely trafficked from Vietnam, the report said.Police in...
Kabul - An elderly Afghan cleric has been arrested after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said Friday, in the latest case highlighting the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered country.Mohammad Karim, said to be aged around 60,...
Singapore - Harry Potter magic hit Asia on Sunday morning, as aspiring witches and wizards crowded into bookstores to get their hands on the first copies of a new play that imagines the hero as an adult.Launch parties for...
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has asserted that violence against children must be stopped, and all Indonesian families should be on the front lines of efforts to protect the nation's children and help them reach their full potential."Families, as the...
TOKYO - Voters in the Japanese capital head to the polls on Sunday and could elect their first woman governor, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city's preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games.Opinion...
DHAKA - A Canadian citizen was one of the masterminds behind a mass killing at a Dhaka cafe, Bangladesh police said Saturday, after new information came to light following a raid on an extremist hideout.Tamim Chowdhury, whose whereabouts are...
TOKYO - Beijing said it has detained and questioned a Japanese national working on cultural exchange projects for allegedly "endangering China's national security", Japanese newspapers reported Saturday.The man, who has been missing since mid-July, was identified by the Nikkei...
Hundreds of people plundered and burned down several Buddhist temples or vihara in Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, on Friday evening. No fatalities or injuries occurred in the anarchic acts, which took place until early Saturday.It is estimated that the...
He has a mind of a four-year-old but the looks of an 80-year-old senior citizen.Bayezid Hossain, from Magura in southern Bangladesh, has a disease that ages the body at eight times the normal rate.He has a swollen face, saggy...
Meet Mr Rodrigo Duterte: the overworked, underpaid President of the Philippines.Nearly a month since he took office, he is realising it can be lonely at the top.The 71-year-old former mayor finds living in the capital Manila boring, and pines...
