MANILA - Mass murder advocate Rodrigo Duterte heads into Saturday's final rallies of an extraordinary Philippine presidential campaign as the shock favourite, but with rivals still having a chance to counter his profanity-laced populist tirades.Duterte, a pugnacious 71-year-old, has...
KUMAMOTO - Three weeks after deadly earthquakes battered Kumamoto Prefecture and other parts of Kyushu, demand for temporary housing looks likely to outstrip supply. Recent surveys have revealed that the tremors destroyed or badly damaged about four times more...
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Pyongyang - North Korea's first ruling party congress since 1980 moved into a second day on Saturday, after leader Kim Jong-Un opened with a defiant defence of his nuclear weapons programme and amid fresh signs Pyongyang is readying a...
NEW DELHI - Anyone distributing a map the Indian government deems to be "wrong" could be liable for a billion-rupee (S$20.4 million) fine and jail time under a new draft bill published this week.Maps are a highly sensitive issue...
MULTAN, Pakistan - A Pakistani sweet shop owner has confessed to fatally poisoning at least 30 people by lacing his goods with pesticide in an attempt to take revenge on his older brother, police told AFP Friday.Khalid Mehmood confessed...
BEIJING - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook plans to visit Beijing later this month to meet high-level government officials, at a time when it is facing some setbacks in its most important overseas market, a source familiar with...
BEIJING - Delegates from China were absent from North Korea's once-in-a-generation party congress, Chinese media said Friday, in a potential sign of fraying ties between Pyongyang and its most important ally.Beijing is a key supporter of the hermit kingdom,...
HONG KONG - Luxury fashion brand Gucci apologised Friday after warning Hong Kong's funeral shops not to sell paper fakes of its products, traditionally burned as tributes to the dead.Burning paper replicas of everything a loved one could ever...
YANGON - Myanmar's president has urged the creation of a new ministry for Aung San Suu Kyi's state advisor position, official media reported Friday, a move that will deepen her influence and likely rile the powerful army.Suu Kyi is...
Pyongyang - North Korea on Friday staged its most important political show for a generation, aimed at cementing the absolute rule of leader Kim Jong-Un and underlining the sanctions-hit country's "prestige" as a nuclear power.The first ruling party congress...
