Beijing - The choking, assault and attempted kidnapping of a Chinese woman at a Beijing hotel in full view of security cameras and multiple passers-by has sparked a social media firestorm, with more than two billion views.It is the...
Bangkok - A set of emoticons satirising Thailand's royal family have been removed by the messaging application Line, in a country where discussion of the monarchy is tightly controlled by a draconian royal insult law.Cached webpages of Line's "sticker...
Beijing - Nearly a third of the business of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, came from its offices in Hong Kong and China, reports say, making the Asian giant its biggest...
HANOI - Vietnam's National Assembly approved Nguyen Xuan Phuc as the country's prime minister on Thursday, completing a new core leadership trio to rule the fast-growing nation for the next five years.Phuc, 61, rises from deputy prime minister to...
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PESHAWAR - Pakistani rescuers were struggling on Wednesday (April 6) to reach 23 people buried by a landslide in the north after heavy rains on the weekend that the authorities said have killed at least 92.National diaster management authorities...
TOKYO: As if cat, rabbit, owl, hawk and even snake-themed cafes aren't enough in a country which loves all things cute, Tokyo residents wanting to spend time with animals have a new choice: a hedgehog-themed cafe.Customers at "Harry" -...
Yangon - Myanmar's president on Wednesday signed a Bill giving Aung San Suu Kyi a new role of state adviser, shoring up her influence across all branches of government despite vehement opposition from the still-powerful military.Suu Kyi is determined...
SHANGHAI - China's top planning agency has ordered issuers of so-called enterprise bonds and their underwriters to assess the risks of default and report back to the government in a nationwide campaign to limit systemic financial risk.The National Development...
Phnom Penh - Tigers are "functionally extinct" in Cambodia, conservationists conceded for the first time on Wednesday, as they launched a bold action plan to reintroduce the big cats to the kingdom's forests.Cambodia's dry forests used to be home...
