BEIJING - China's Internet regulator said on Monday it will send an investigation team to Chinese search leader Baidu Inc over the death of a university student, who had used the search engine to look for treatment for his...
HONG KONG - Hundreds of protesters gathered Monday outside the headquarters of a Hong Kong newspaper where a respected editor was recently sacked after publishing a front-page story linked to the Panama Papers leak.Around 300 reporters, activists and members...
Kathmandu - The bodies of top mountaineer Alex Lowe and his cameraman have been found in a Himalayan glacier, 16 years after they were buried by an avalanche on one of the world's highest mountains.Two climbers last week came...
A Facebook video introducing an exotic animal cafe in Bangkok has recently garnered mixed reactions from netizens. Fennec foxes, raccoons, owls and meerkats are some of the critters that can be found in the glass rooms in the Little Zoo...
India's flamboyant businessman Vijay Mallya once said that his extravagant lifestyle was "carefully crafted" to promote a business empire that ranged from beer and spirits to an airline and the Sahara Force Formula One team.The portly, diamond stud-wearing businessman...
When Professor Lee Chih-kung was announced as Taiwan's incoming Economic Affairs Minister two weeks ago, there was collective bemusement across the island.The academic at National Taiwan University is known for his groundbreaking research in engineering science. But he has...
Seoul - South Korea warned Monday there is a risk of its citizens being abducted by Pyongyang in retaliation for the defection of a dozen North Korean staff at a restaurant in China.Twelve women working at the restaurant in...
Seoul - The head of a Korean subsidiary of a British consumer goods company was slapped and shouted down Monday as he apologised for his firm's role in selling a humidifier disinfectant blamed for more than 100 deaths in...
Cambodia - Standing next to cages that once housed political prisoners, former Khmer Rouge foot soldier Tho Lon gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing from a clutch of students, despite his work for a regime that wiped out a quarter...
Taipei - Growing up in Taiwan under martial law, Hsu Hsu-mei knew almost nothing about her father, only that he was executed for being a "thought criminal".She was five years old when doctor Hsu Chiang was taken away on...
