For one Tesla owner in Shanghai, range anxiety was the least of the day's worries.On Monday morning, a driver was nearly struck by a giant, falling glass panel just as he was alighting from his Tesla electric car outside...
WASHINGTON - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation suspects the computer hacking theft of US$81 million (S$110.9 million) from Bangladesh's central bank was in part an inside job, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.Quoting sources familiar with the matter,...
TOKYO - Information on some 210,000 companies mentioned in the "Panama Papers" was revealed by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The information shows that the number of businesses and individuals in China involved in setting up entities in...
SEOUL - North Korea's former military chief of staff who was reported executed earlier this year is apparently alive and well after being named Tuesday in a number of senior ruling party posts.Intelligence reports in South Korea had suggested...
KATHMANDU - Climbers on Mount Everest are on the brink of the first attempts in three years to make the final ascent to the world's tallest peak, after fatal avalanches cut short the 2014 and 2015 campaigns.Teams at forward...
CURUP, Indonesia - Seven Indonesian teenagers were jailed Tuesday for the brutal murder and gang rape of a 14-year-old girl that sparked a national debate on sexual violence.They were among a gang who set upon the schoolgirl while she...
MANILA - Boxing hero Manny Pacquiao is virtually assured of a seat in the upper house Senate, according to election results Tuesday which take him a step closer to his dream of the Philippines presidency.Pacquiao, 37, whose rise from...
DAVAO, Philippines - The Philippines'president-elect, rough-talking city mayor Rodrigo Duterte, announced plans on Tuesday for an overhaul of the country's system of government that would devolve power from "imperial Manila" to long-neglected provinces.Duterte's win in Monday's poll has not...
MANILA - Geraldine Roman on Tuesday celebrated overcoming "bigotry, hatred and discrimination" as results showed she had become the first transgender politician to win a congressional seat in the predominantly Catholic Philippines.After her victory in Monday's election, Roman, 49,...
BEIJING - Baidu Inc's CEO has called on employees to put values before profit in response to a scandal around the death of a student who underwent an experimental cancer treatment he found on the company's search website.Before his...
