Manila - Anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte took an early lead in the Philippine presidential election vote count on Monday, the nation's media said, after an incendiary campaign dominated by his profanity-laced threats to kill criminals.The elections also saw Filipinos...
A Japanese sushi chef who served Kim Jong-Il claims North Korea's current leader has no intention of waging war with the United States.The chef, who goes by the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, told a Japanese tabloid magazine he was invited...
Manila - At least 10 people died across the Philippines in election day violence on Monday, as gunmen attacked polling stations, ambushed vehicles and stole vote counting machines, police said.However authorities described the violence as isolated incidents and that...
Tokyo - A Japanese artist who makes objects shaped like her vagina was convicted Monday after a high-profile obscenity trial, in a decision likely to reignite accusations of heavy-handed censorship.The Tokyo District Court slapped Megumi Igarashi with a 400,000...
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Seoul - A BBC reporter in North Korea was detained, interrogated for eight hours and eventually expelled over his reporting in the run-up to a rare ruling party congress, the British broadcaster said Monday.Foreign reporters invited to cover specific...
The start of the dry season in Indonesia is just around the corner and it will once again threaten the region with hazy skies.Smoke-belching forest and peatland fires in Indonesia are the main cause of haze between June and...
The parents of a boy who died in a centre for children with autism have hired a lawyer to help collect evidence against the institution.Zhang Wei, mother of Lai Rijia, also hired a local medical institution to conduct an...
A MAN in Hangzhou, China, was shocked to find that his genitals were putrefying because he was wearing underwear that had been soaked in poison, reported Kwong Wah Yit Poh.The man, known only as Zhang, in his 50s, had...
MANILA - Voting was underway in the Philippines on Monday to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals.Polls opened at 6:00am (2200 GMT...
MANILA - Seven people were shot dead and another was wounded when a convoy of vehicles was ambushed in the Philippines Monday just hours before polls opened for national elections, police said.Unknown gunmen opened fire on the jeep and...
