LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan on Thursday appointed a senior police official to investigate the death of a British woman whose husband alleges she was killed for marrying him against her parents' wishes.The case has attracted attention because it comes days...
SEOUL - South Korea said on Thursday it suspected North Korea of hacking a South Korean online shopping site and stealing personal records of more than 10 million shoppers in what appeared to be the latest case of a...
Beijing - China on Thursday announced new rules governing ridesharing services, making clear for the first time that they are now legal in a giant market where US-based Uber is at loggerheads with local rival Didi Chuxing.China has become...
New Delhi - An axe-wielding shopkeeper hacked a couple to death in northern India Thursday after they failed to pay a debt of 22 US cents (S$0.30), police said.The middle-aged couple from the lowest Dalit caste in Uttar Pradesh...
Tokyo - Japan is reviewing its mental health system to see how a man who was hospitalised after making violent threats came to be released after just 12 days and was later able to kill 19 people.Satoshi Uematsu, 26,...
Manila - China is harbouring major drug lords who smuggle narcotics into the Philippines, the president said Thursday as he pressed on with his ruthless war on crime.Rodrigo Duterte made the remarks even as the two countries continue to...
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HONG KONG - Security was tightened at the South Korean consulate in Hong Kong on Thursday after media reports that a North Korean, possibly a student, had sought refuge there.The North Korean is understood to be a member of...
Mumbai - Indian budget airline IndiGo was forced to divert an international flight on Thursday after an unruly passenger sat on the plane's food cart before attacking another traveller, it said.The morning flight from Dubai to Calicut, in the...
Hong Kong - Dubbed the "milkshake murderer" for one of Hong Kong's most notorious crimes, American Nancy Kissel has lodged a fresh bid to reduce her life sentence for murdering her banker husband in 2003.The 51-year-old lost an appeal...
Taipei - Taiwan on Thursday ordered almost half the tour buses inspected after a recent bus inferno - which killed dozens of Chinese tourists - off the road after they failed new safety checks.Twenty-four Chinese tourists and two Taiwanese...
