The Philippines will have Rodrigo Duterte as their new president by the end of June.Known for his blunt speech, he is often compared to Donald Trump, both of who have often made the headlines as of late for controversial...
JAKARTA - Indonesian women are defying a government ban on travelling to the Middle East to work as maids, convinced there are better prospects in the Gulf than at home despite high-profile cases of abuse, a survey on Thursday...
SYDNEY - Vietnamese abattoir workers have been filmed using sledgehammers to bludgeon Australian cattle, activists said Thursday, prompting some exporters to stop supplying livestock to some slaughterhouses in the southeast Asian nation.Undercover investigators working for Animals Australia filmed footage...
HONG KONG - A Hong Kong bookseller known for selling titles critical of Beijing told Thursday how he was blindfolded and kept in a tiny cell by Chinese authorities after going missing eight months ago.Lam Wing-kee is one of...
NEW DELHI - India is calling for volunteers to hold workshops for children, a minister said Thursday, as state-run schools around the country struggle with absentee teachers.Launching the initiative, education minister Smriti Irani said people from varying professions could...
BANGKOK - Airports of Thailand Pcl (AOT) , the country's main airport operator, plans to spend 194 billion baht (S$7.4 billion) over the next 15 years to expand its six airports to handle a boom in visitors, it said...
TAIPEI - China has axed a visit by a popular Taiwanese children's choir after they sang the national anthem at the inauguration of the island's new president, as ties between the rivals grow increasingly frosty.The choir is the latest...
MANILA - US fighter planes have arrived in the Philippines for a training mission and operations to ensure access to the disputed South China Sea, the US Navy said Thursday.The Philippines' longtime ally deployed the aircraft to train Filipino...
TOKYO - A Japanese man who stabbed his father to death with a chopstick was arrested on Thursday, police said.Michikazu Ikeuchi, 51, admitted that he stabbed his 80-year-old father in the throat with a 30-centimetre- (12- inch) long wooden,...
BEIJING - China criticised US President Barack Obama on Thursday for hosting the Dalai Lama at the White House, despite efforts to avoid irking Beijing by holding the meeting off-camera and out of the public eye.Obama carried out what...
