Kathmandu - A year after an earthquake flattened her home in Nepal, Menuka Rokaya still lives in a tent with her husband and nine-month-old baby as they await even a sliver of a US$4 billion (S$5.4 billion) aid fund."We...
Tokyo - A Tokyo "cat cafe" has been raided by health inspectors and ordered to close its doors due to animal neglect after complaints about nasty smells coming from the premises.The "Neko no Te" (cat's paw) cafe - one...
BEIJING - Apple Inc's online book and film services have gone dark in China, after Beijing introduced regulations in March imposing strict curbs on online publishing, particularly for foreign firms.Attempts by Reuters to access Apple's iBooks Store and iTunes...
THAILAND - Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks gathered on Friday at a Thai temple mired in controversy to join in a ceremony organisers called the world's largest offering of alms to renunciates.The temple, 49 km (30 miles) north...
SEOUL/JAKARTA - Months after its global rollout, Netflix Inc is facing problems in several major Asian markets as it struggles to provide enough strong content to attract consumers amid tough local competition, and also faces many regulatory hurdles, underlining...
BEIJING - China faces a tough task in tracking down fugitives and recovering stolen assets from abroad, a senior graft-buster said, launching a campaign to catch corrupt officials who have fled overseas and recover their ill-gotten assets.China has been...
BEIJING - China will try the 45 Taiwan suspects in a telecoms fraud case who were deported by Kenya to China this month, the Chinese government told a delegation from Taiwan, state media reported, in a case that has...
BHUBANESWAR, India/KARACHI, Pakistan - More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heat wave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday.Neighbouring Pakistan, which suffered its hottest...
BANGKOK - The leader of Thailand's junta on Thursday accused fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of being behind a series of small anti-junta protests that have flared in the capital this week.Rivalry between the former telecommunications tycoon and...
TAIPEI - Taiwan prosecutors angered China over the weekend by freeing 20 Taiwanese suspected of defrauding Chinese nationals in a telecoms scam but on Thursday changed their minds, taking most of them into custody on suspicion of committing "serious...
