BANGKOK - Thousands of supporters of a wealthy and controversial Thai Buddhist sect rallied at the temple's space-age headquarters Thursday to successfully see off an attempt by police to arrest the movement's elderly abbot on fraud charges.The long simmering...
JAKARTA - Indonesian rescuers worked on Thursday to save a pod of beached whales that got trapped in a mangrove swamp at low tide, fisheries officials said.Villagers in the area in the east of Java island were helping fisheries...
An Indian businessman is suing Cathay Pacific for HK$1.94 million (S$340,000) to compensate his "mental agony" after the airline allegedly failed to attend to his 12-year-old son who was travelling alone.Accusing the airline of extreme "deficiency of service and...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Former President Ma Ying-jeou Wednesday ridiculed the government's decision to bar him from attending a Hong Kong event over security concerns, delivering instead a video-taped speech in which he humorously warned his audience of being in...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Abu Sayyaf said it meant to embarrass Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte after he had promised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the beheading of John Ridsdel in April was not going to be repeated.The Abu...
TAIPEI - By Sept. 1, travellers from Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar will have been given visa privileges that others from their fellow Asean member states now enjoy, the Taiwan government said.Taiwan on Wednesday announced a series of changes and...
SEOUL - SOUTH Korea's festivals have evolved in both variety and scale over the years, drawing tourists and expats to join in the fun.According to data released by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the number of tourists...
BEIJING - China's unbranded goods are often better than the branded originals they imitate, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Jack Ma has said, posing an additional challenge to the battle against sales of counterfeits."The problem is that the fake...
JAKARTA - An Indonesian bombmaker inspired by an Islamic State extremist was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for plotting to blow up a Buddhist temple on Java island.The court heard that Ibad, who like many Indonesians goes...
BEIJING - China has banned exports to North Korea of a range of technologies that could be used to build weapons, the latest move to deter Pyongyang's internationally condemned nuclear programme.Prohibited goods include ring magnets, high strength aluminium alloys,...
