PHNOM PENH - Prime Minister Hun Sen, accused of intensifying a crackdown on dissent before Cambodia's 2018 election, threatened on Wednesday to jail an opposition leader who has refused to come forward over an alleged sex scandal.Political tensions have...
NEW DELHI - India's Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to hear a petition challenging a law criminalising gay sex, a setback for gay rights activists battling in the country's courts to get the ban overturned.A number of well-known lesbian,...
A 10-year-old boy has been put on a diet of brown rice over fears that he may die due to his extreme obesity.Arya Permana, who weighs 192kg, is so obese that he is unable to fit into conventional clothes,...
MANILA - Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as Philippine president on Thursday after a landslide election victory last month built on a series of bold and controversial pledges.Here are 10 ways Duterte plans to change the Philippines during his...
MORE people in Japan are going online to arrange for monks to hold funerals and Buddhist memorial services, instead of using those from their family temples.The popularity of the Internet services is fuelled by an easy-to-understand pricing system and...
China's top internet regulator, who oversaw a severe tightening of internet freedoms during his tenure, has stepped down, reports said Wednesday.Lu Wei - named as one of the world's 100 most influential people last year by Time magazine -...
Prime Minister Hun Sen, accused of intensifying a crackdown on dissent before Cambodia's 2018 election, threatened on Wednesday to jail an opposition leader who has refused to come forward over an alleged sex scandal.Political tensions have risen in recent...
A 58-year-old woman in Sichuan, China, had a pair of pliers lodged 15cm deep in her skull after the object fell from a 31-storey building and struck her right in the head.According to Shanghaiist, Wang Youfang had been walking...
At least two Philippine senators will file bills on July 1 to reimpose the death penalty in keeping apparently with President-elect Rodrigo Duterte's wishes.Reviving capital punishment will be among the first 10 measures to be filed by each of...
Indonesia is planning a hi-tech monitoring network to protect peatland at the centre of last year's raging fires that cloaked Southeast Asia in toxic haze, a senior official said.The fires sent smog billowing across the region in September and...
