Bangkok - Thai authorities uncovered a trove of animal parts and intercepted a monk trying to leave a controversial "tiger temple" with skins and fangs Thursday, the latest discovery to fuel accusations that the zoo is involved in the...
MANILA - Philippine media groups denounced President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt and "you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a b****".Duterte's comments about extrajudicial...
COLOMBO - Fireworks sparked a fire at a luxury beach resort in southern Sri Lanka minutes after it was opened by President Maithripala Sirisena, the hotel and local officials said.Police have already begun an investigation into Wednesday's incident at...
WASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday declared North Korea a "primary money laundering concern," and moved to further block its ability to use the US and world financial systems to fund its weapons programs.The US Treasury Department called...
Indonesia's football association chairman La Nyalla Mattalitti had been hiding in plain sight - first in Malaysia, then Singapore - for more than two months, trying to avoid a graft probe against him.His luck, however, ran out this week...
SEOUL - South Korea welcomed Thursday the US decision to label North Korea a "global money laundering concern" -- a move that will further isolate Pyongyang from the global financial system.The measure will prevent both direct and indirect North...
When Niu Tianlong graduated from the Shanghai University of Sport last year, the 22-year-old planned to pursue his passion for a full-contact, Chinese martial art known as wushu.Then The Walt Disney Co came calling. Nowadays, he's lacing up his...
On Children's Day, the Shanghai Children's Hospital received a special festival gift - a payment of 6,600 yuan ($1,002) for an overdue medical bill dating back to the 1960s.Younger brother Zheng Bin was just two years old when he...
Huge crowds at the highly anticipated Shanghai Disneyland, which is forecast to draw 10 million visitors annually, may discourage Shanghai residents from visiting Disney's first theme park on the Chinese mainland, a poll showed.Roughly two in three Shanghai residents...
ISLAMABAD - A young Pakistani woman died Wednesday (June 1) after she was tortured and set alight in the country's conservative northeast for refusing a marriage proposal from the son of a former colleague, relatives and police said.Maria Sadaqat,...
