JAKARTA - A gamut of forensic tests await the body of a militant, killed during a fire-fight with security forces in the jungles of Poso, Central Sulawesi on Monday (July 18).Indonesian police say they plan to test the dead...
SEOUL - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, just over a week after issuing threats to respond to the planned deployment of a US anti-missile system in the South.The missiles, launched early Tuesday...
DHAKA - A court in Bangladesh on Monday formally charged 38 people with murder in connection with the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building which killed 1,135 people in the country's worst industrial disaster.Forty-one defendants in total face...
Bak kwa and dried pork sold in Bangkok have been found to contain excessive levels of preservatives. The levels of preservatives found in some products are "alarming", according to the Thai Consumer Protection Association.The association said on July 12...
JAKARTA - Indonesia on Monday (July 18) began re-vaccinating nearly 200 children who had received fake versions of imported innoculations from a drug-counterfeiting ring broken up last month after operating for more than a decade.President Joko Widodo urged calm...
Spurred by her grandfather's encouragement to follow her heart, Singaporean Anges Ang moved to Seoul in 2013 to pursue Korean language studies.She has since fallen in love with South Korea and is now preparing to take the state-administered Test...
HONG KONG - When activists began setting fire to trash bins and hurling bricks at police during a February riot in Hong Kong, Chris Lee became more convinced his decision to leave his siblings and mother behind and move...
An open letter which addressed a Malaysian photographer's never-before-seen pictures of Fukushima's exclusion zone has called his actions a "publicity stunt" and a "last ditch effort to get your 10 seconds of Internet fame".Last week, the Bangkok-based photographer Mr...
Vietnamese border officials are refusing to stamp new Chinese passports featuring the nine-dash line that represents China's claim on most of the South China Sea.According to a report by Vietnamese media group Tuoi Tre News on Saturday, holders of...
LO MANTHANG, Nepal - A Himalayan Shangri-La that was closed to visitors until 1992, the former Buddhist kingdom of Upper Mustang in Nepal is facing unprecedented change as a new highway brings modernity to the roof of the world.Kerosene...
