HIROSHIMA - For survivors of the world's first nuclear attack, the day America unleashed a terrible bomb over the city of Hiroshima remains seared forever in their minds.Though their numbers are dwindling and the advancing years are taking a...
An elderly man in Shenzhen, China was seriously hurt when he fell through a escalator he was standing on, causing his leg to get stuck.According to online reports, the incident happened at a shopping mall in Shenzhen's Bao'an District...
Hong Kong - A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist who was allegedly beaten by police in an attack captured by television cameras and beamed around the world was found guilty Thursday of assaulting and resisting police officers.Political activist Ken Tsang...
BEIJING - China's 1.3 billion people are united in their determination never to allow self-ruled Taiwan to become independent, China's top official in charge of ties with the island was quoted as saying on Thursday, in Beijing's latest blast...
A Thai man was just going about his morning business when a python, nearly four-metres long, bit his penis.According to Khaosod English, the reptile slithered out of Atthaporn Boonmakchuay's squat toilet and attacked him while he was using it yesterday (May...
It was an unbelievable sight - a young woman standing against a board that said "human target, 10 yuan (S$2.10) a shot", inviting passers-by to shoot arrows at her.A bow and arrows sat on the floor while another woman...
New Delhi - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended his record of reforming India's stuttering economy after two years in power, but conceded that his right-wing government faced "an enormous task ahead".In an interview with The Wall Street Journal...
Child molesters have recently caused growing fear in the community, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says, and in response the State Palace has issued a regulation in lieu of law, and thus immediately effective, creating a special legal umbrella that...
HONG KONG - It is billed as a groundbreaking way to deal with Hong Kong's human waste, and even includes an onsite spa free to residents, but a new eco-friendly sludge treatment plant has not washed with some locals.The...
MANILA - Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has apologised to the Canadian prime minister for the beheading of a Canadian by an Islamist militant group, saying he would try to make sure "nothing like this" happens again.Duterte, 71, has yet...
