TAIPEI - He won Taiwan's largest ever landslide victory, a safe pair of hands promising prosperity and stability - but president Ma Ying-jeou leaves office this month caricatured as incompetent, aloof and wildly out of step with public sentiment.Coolly...
SAN FRANCISCO - Southeast Asia is rising as the new epicenter for ocean piracy, according to a new report.Attacks on shipping by pirates in Southeast Asia are on the rise and the region is now responsible for about 60...
Danish chemical company KeTox -- which allegedly supplied PGH to Korean company Butterflyeffect -- has denied any links to the firm, a civic group working with the victims of toxic humidifier disinfectants said Thursday.The Danish company denied any business...
Kim Min-sun, a 35-year-old office worker in Seoul, recalls a winter day in 2010 when she bought a bottle of Oxy Ssak Ssak, a humidifier sterilizer accused of killing at least 103 Koreans, at a supermarket in Seoul.Cheap and...
Double-amputee Chinese climber Xia Boyu is about 1,500 meters away from reaching the summit of the world's highest mountain.On Thursday morning, he reached a height of 7,283 meters on the 8,848-meter-high Qomolangma, according to a live broadcast on news...
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TOKYO - A Japanese travel agency has cancelled a service offering in-flight lectures from "beautiful" female university students after a barrage of online criticism accusing the firm of sexism.HIS travel firm dropped the in-flight package Wednesday, its intended launch...
Indonesia has lodged a "strong protest" with Singapore for demanding that Indonesia-based companies suspected to be linked to the region-wide haze explain measures they have taken in tackling fires on their land, a Foreign Ministry spokesman disclosed on Thursday...
NEW DELHI - Donald Trump may face a long, tough road to the White House, but some fans in India at least are pulling together to try and get him divine assistance.A far-right Hindu group held prayers this week...
SHANGHAI, China - Toy giant Lego opens its largest retail store in the world at the Shanghai Disney Resort on Wednesday (May 11), delighting children and adults alike.The Danish plastic brick maker has been revitalised in recent years partly...
