TAIPEI - Super Typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain as it made landfall Friday, injuring dozens and forcing more than 15,000 to evacuate their homes as the island cancelled hundreds of flights and shut offices...
WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday urged respect for a decision on territorial disputes in the South China Sea set to be handed down by an international arbitration court next week.The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Dutch...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Up to 21 people were injured in an explosion on Train 1258 operated by the Taiwan Railway Administration at around 10 p.m. Thursday night near Songshan Station.A fire broke out following the explosion that occurred in...
DHAKA - Suspected Islamists carrying bombs and machetes launched another deadly attack in Bangladesh Thursday, killing at least three people at a huge prayer rally marking the start of Eid.Days after a mass murder of hostages in Dhaka, authorities...
TAIPEI - Taiwan cancelled more than 100 flights and shut schools and offices Thursday as the island braced for a direct hit from Super Typhoon Nepartak, the first major tropical storm of the season.The typhoon was packing gusts of...
PHNOM PENH - Tourists showing cleavage or wearing skimpy clothes will be banned from Cambodia's famed Angkor temple complex, authorities said Thursday, after a slew of photos emerged of scantily-clad visitors at the sacred site.From August 4 tourists wearing...
SINGAPORE - More than half of workers in five Southeast Asian countries are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation in the next two decades, an International Labour Organization study found, with those in the garments industry...
BEIJING - Monitored, scared, and made to feel like criminals, the women's only offence is to be married to lawyers and activists detained by China's Communist authorities. But a year after their husbands disappeared, they are defiant.The men represented...
DHAKA - Bangladesh has launched a clampdown on social media sites spreading jihadist propaganda after an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered, saying the country's young were being radicalised online.Authorities said the deadly siege...
PETALING JAYA - Bangladeshi police have named all five gunman involved in last Friday's deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka, the BBC reported.The report named the five gunmen who attacked the restaurant as Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer...
