More foreign drug convicts could imminently face the firing squad in Indonesia after authorities said Monday they were ready to carry out a new round of executions following a hiatus.Nationals from Pakistan, Nigeria and Zimbabwe are expected to be...
VIENTIANE - Southeast Asian nations Monday ducked direct criticism of China over its claims to the South China Sea, in a diluted statement produced after days of disagreement that gives the superpower a diplomatic victory.The 10-member Association of Southeast...
VIENTIANE - International tension over maritime disputes in the South China Sea should be toned down, China's Foreign Minister said on Monday, after a "deeply flawed"international court ruled against Beijing's expansive claims in the South China Sea.The UN-backed Permanent...
If you and team sink in the crocodile-infested pond, the 'reward' is 5 million baht (S$194,000).Hopefully, everyone survives and you get to share the prize. Fingers crossed.That's a seemingly morbid monetary reward the owner of Elephant Territory Pattaya has...
When the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen launched its subway's new Line 11 last month, it came with something not usually found in subways - a business-class section.Photos circuating online recently showed huge disparity between the riderships for the...
MANILA - More than 300 suspected drug users, pushers and dealers have been killed by police or vigilantes across the Philippines since President Rodrigo Duterte took office on June 30.Thou shall not kill.The Sixth Commandment is the message for...
Zhang Feng, an expert on lubricating oil at a research institute in Beijing, dined twice at a hotpot restaurant in Chengdu, Sichuan province, during his nearly five-day stay in the city. "The hotpot was one of the elements that...
PHNOM PENH - Tens of thousands of Cambodians on Sunday joined the funeral procession of a prominent government critic whose murder in broad daylight has raised suspicions of a hit job in country with a long history of political...
BEIJING - Four Chinese officials have been suspended following devastating floods that left more than 200 dead and missing and provoked widespread outrage over an alleged cover-up by the authorities, state media reported Sunday.Torrential rains lashed the north this...
VIENTIANE - Southeast Asian nations were deadlocked Sunday about how to confront China's territorial claims in the South China Sea as pressure from Beijing again drove a wedge between countries on the region's toughest security challenge.Their gathering in the...
