As Thailand gears up for its crowd-pulling Songkran festival next week, a leaked memo has warned that four Uighur and Chechen militants could be planning terrorist attacks on foreigners in the kingdom.According to local news website Khaosod English, the...
HANOI - Vietnam completed a protracted leadership transition on Saturday, with 21 new faces in a cabinet tasked with reforming an economy seeing galloping growth but dogged by privatisation and public debt problems.Parliament approved a 27-member lineup that retains...
Taipei - Taiwanese premier-designate Lin Chuan has introduced the first batch of Cabinet ministers, one of whom is a cousin of president-elect Tsai Ing-wen.On Thursday, Mr Lin Chuan introduced the eight Cabinet members at a tea session with the media....
SEOUL - While browsing profiles on a dating app, Ms Jayine Chung was drawn to a man who described himself as someone who enjoys good food and throwing stones into the Han River."It was very quirky and amusing... Who...
Bangkok - Thai authorities have banned a five-month-old French edition of Marie Claire magazine because of an article which police said defamed the kingdom's royal family.Thailand's royal defamation laws are among the world's harshest and can land offenders decades...
Zamboanga, Philippines - A retired Italian priest held hostage for six months by suspected Islamic militants left a Philippines hospital Saturday a day after his release, looking frail though officials said he was in good health.A thin Rolando Del...
The arrest of a man in connection with the alleged assault of a woman at a four-star Beijing hotel has led many people to discuss the case, and the safety of women.The news came on Friday when Beijing police...
SEOUL - North Korea said on Saturday (April 9) it had successfully tested an engine designed for an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) that would "guarantee" an eventual nuclear strike on the US mainland.It was the latest in a series...
MANILA: A retired Italian priest abducted six months ago in the southern Philippines by suspected Islamic militants was released on Friday, police and the Italian government said.Rolando Del Torchio was picked up at a port on the remote island...
ROME - An Italian man who was kidnapped last year in the Philippines has been freed, Italy's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, and the former missionary's family had been notified.Rolando del Torchio was taken at gunpoint in October from...
