Indonesian police have arrested three suspects over a plan to sell a three-month-old baby boy to a buyer in Singapore for almost $11,000.Acting on a tip-off, police from the Riau Islands province raided a house in Batam last Wednesday...
Wednesday marked the official start of the 18-day campaign for the 24th House of Councillors election, which will culminate in voting on July 10.The upper house election is the first full-scale national election since the inauguration of Prime Minister...
Hong Kong - Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific said Wednesday (June 22) it will ban carrying shark fins and products on all its flights, a victory for conservationists concerned for endangered species of the predator.The southern Chinese city...
Beijing - A giant panda in China has given birth to two cubs, conservation authorities said, the first twins of the critically endangered species this year even though multiple births are common.Six-year-old Ya Li had the twin sisters last...
Seoul - Nuclear-armed North Korea conducted two back-to-back tests of a powerful new medium-range missile on Wednesday (June 22), with both achieving a significant increase in flight distance over previous failed launches, South Korea's Defence Ministry said.Both tests were...
SEOUL - Nuclear-armed North Korea conducted two back-to-back tests of a powerful new medium-range missile on Wednesday, with both achieving a significant increase in flight distance over previous failed launches, South Korea's Defence Ministry said.Both tests were believed to...
NEW DELHI - The gleaming glass atriums and blue-clad "geniuses" that herald the arrival of an Apple store could soon be landing in India, after the government cleared the way for it to open in the rapidly growing smartphone...
I wish to clarify some of the points raised in the Reuters report of June 11 ("Weapons training for 'gangsters' triggers concern").The Bela Negara, or Defend the Nation, programme has legal basis in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic...
Have you ever looked up in the sky and thought you saw a face or a shape in the clouds?Now you don't have to wonder if you're imagining it.A "cloud-making" company based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has been filling...
TOKYO - At least six people died and a university student was missing on Wednesday as record-breaking rains battered parts of southwestern Japan still reeling from earthquakes two months ago, setting off flooding and landslides.Hundreds of thousands people were...
