PARIS - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will urge Southeast Asian nations in meetings in Laos next week to find diplomatic ways to launch talks on easing tension over the South China Sea following an international court ruling...
Heavy rain in China has killed at least 87 people and forced 16 million from their homes, state media reported on Saturday.Seventy-two people have been killed and 78 are missing in the northern province of Hebei after rain triggered...
MANILA - Finally, law enforcers are starting to net the big fish.A suspected Chinese drug lord wanted for operating "shabu" (methamphetamine hydrochloride) laboratories in the Philippines for the past 13 years was killed in a shootout with narcotics agents...
In China's latest burst of nationalism, it's all about putting the nation before South South Korean idols.On Thursday, during a National Security Council meeting in Seoul, South Korean President Park Geun Hye reiterated her support to deploy the US...
BANGKOK - US authorities have apprehended former jet-setting monk Luang Pu Nenkham, who now goes by his layman's name Wiraphon Sukphon, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Pol Colonel Paisit Wongmuang said yesterday.The DSI was informed by US officials...
SHANGHAI - Heavy rain in China has killed at least 24 people and forced 16 million from their homes, state media reported on Saturday.The government of Henan province in central China told the Xinhua news agency that 15 people...
A 13-YEAR-OLD girl from Guang'an, China, jumped to her death after her grandmother "arranged" for her to be raped by a feng shui master, reported Kwong Wah Yit Poh.The girl, who had been staying with her grandmother as her...
A FARMER in India refused to sell one of his cows even after being offered a staggering RM2mil, reported Malaysia Nanban.Munnah Singh owns a cattle farm in Madya Pradesh state with about 100 cows.The five-year-old cow bought from a...
SHANGHAI - China health authorities have started a nationwide inspection of vaccinations four months after a scandal broke involving nearly US$90 million (S$122.3 million) worth of illegal vaccines that were suspected of being sold in dozens of provinces.Authorities will...
BANGKOK - At least seven people were injured Friday (July 22) when a driver had a seizure and her car ploughed into a Hindu shrine in Bangkok hit by a fatal bomb last year, police said.The light blue sedan...
