The Imperial Household Agency is arranging an occasion for the Emperor to express his thoughts to the public sometime in August in light of a series of reports earlier this month that he intends to abdicate the throne, The...
JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities detained seven people in northern Sumatra island on Saturday on suspicion of attacking several Buddhist temples the previous night, officials said.A spokeswoman for North Sumatra provincial police said the seven had led a mob that...
TOKYO - A sex exhibition smack in the middle in one of Tokyo's hippest areas is shining a nostalgic light on Japanese erotica - a culture the curator believes is dying out.Kyoichi Tsuzuki's "Erotopia Japan" deals with Japanese sexuality...
BEIJING - Eight men who kidnapped a Hong Kong fashion heiress and held her in a cave as they negotiated a multi-million-dollar ransom were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison Friday, a mainland court said.Queenie Rosita Law,...
BEIJING - Eight men who kidnapped a Hong Kong fashion heiress and held her in a cave as they negotiated a multi-million-dollar ransom were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison Friday, a mainland court said.Queenie Rosita Law,...
TAIPEI - The driver of a tour bus which crashed and caught fire in Taiwan killing dozens of Chinese tourists was drunk when the accident happened, investigators said Friday.In the worst road accident ever to hit mainland visitors to...
After two years watching several of his ministers bicker and expose their policy differences to the public, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo told his newly reformed Cabinet on Wednesday that all ministers had to work as a team and that...
SAGAMIHARA, Kanagawa - The suspect in a mass killing Tuesday at a welfare facility for intellectually disabled people in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, suddenly changed his attitude toward the facility's staff and residents beginning around February, according to the director...
CHENNAI - D hanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children's home in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.She had been entrusted in the care of the unregistered institution by her mother, a ragpicker...
Indonesian President Joko Widodo's cabinet shakeup strengthens his political position in Parliament and further cements his ambitious reform agenda: He put strong figures in crucial economic and finance roles. But he also sidelined others. Here are five things to...
