TOKYO - At least 19 people were killed in Japan when a knife-wielding man went on a rampage at a care centre for the mentally disabled early Tuesday, officials said.Another 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously, in the...
TOKYO - Some 15 people died and 45 were injured at a care centre for the disabled in Japan Tuesday when a former employee went on a knife rampage before turning himself in to police, officials and media said.The...
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian court has convicted three locals and 14 Filipinos of terror-related offences, some punishable by death, following an armed incursion that left scores dead and paralysed a remote corner of Borneo for weeks, a lawyer...
Thailand's junta chief vowed Monday to reboot the flagging economy of the kingdom's poor and rebel-hit south, including by making the Muslim-majority region a hub for halal produce.Thailand's southernmost provinces have been wracked by violence since 2004 that has...
WARNING: The following article contains graphic images and details some readers may find disturbing.A series of three short clips showing a man torturing two young boys have caused an outpouring of anger on Facebook.Lasting no more than 11 seconds...
MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed big reforms to tackle chronic economic flaws on Monday and defended his pursuit of a deadly anti-narcotics war, saying drugs were drowning his country and human rights were no excuse to shield...
ULAANBAATAR - Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj is already at loggerheads with the new prime minister over cabinet appointments, raising the spectre of further instability as the economy slows and foreign investment declines.In June, Elbegdorj's Democratic Party lost a landslide...
BEIJING - Failure to properly handle sensitive issues between the US and China could "very likely disturb and undermine" their military-to-military relations, a top Chinese official told US National Security Advisor Susan Rice Monday.Rice is the highest-level US official...
BANGKOK - A gang of 100 marauding monkeys have become the latest saboteurs to target a referendum trumpeted by the Thai junta as a cure for the nation's political crisis, after they tore down voter lists.The primate rampage comes...
MANILA- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced Monday a unilateral ceasefire with communist rebels who are waging one of Asia's longest insurgencies, and urged them to reciprocate.Duterte made the announcement in his first "State of the Nation Address" to Congress...
