TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Former head of the Child Welfare League and Kuomintang (KMT) legislator Wang Yu-min on Monday, March 28 called for a revision of Criminal Law, to sentence murderers of children younger than 12 either to death or...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The island was left reeling on Monday following the grisly alleged murder of a 4-year-old girl in Taipei by a 33-year-old man - the second of its kind in less than a year.The alleged random attack...
A young girl in Taiwan was beheaded in broad daylight on Monday morning (March 28), according to several online news reports.The 4-year-old was reportedly decapitated right before her mother's eyes at about 11am but could not be saved in...
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine authorities are staging an online exhibition of jewelry owned by late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his family to try to educate a new generation about the corruption of that era.The postings on Facebook and Twitter...
KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban militants fired explosives into Afghanistan's parliament compound on Monday as the top intelligence official and caretaker minister of interior were due to speak, lawmakers and the insurgents said.Lawmakers said no one was reported wounded. But...
BEIJING - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is "making a fool" of Tibetan Buddhism with suggestions he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful are not buying it, a Chinese official wrote on...
BEIJING - Chinese authorities have detained the relatives of several dissidents living abroad, they said, as part of a widening crackdown following the publication of a letter critical of President Xi Jinping.Germany-based journalist Chang Ping said local authorities in...
Lahore, Pakistan - A suicide bomber who attacked a park thronging with families celebrating Easter killed at least 72 people in Pakistan, with children among the dead.More than 200 people were hurt when explosives packed with ball bearings ripped...
SEOUL - South Korea has detected bird flu in ducks on a poultry farm near Seoul, an agriculture ministry official told Reuters on Monday, the first discovery in four months and a month after the country regained its bird...
Driven to despair by her daughter's frequent transformations, a Chinese woman threatened to disown her during a TV show if she does not kick her addiction to plastic surgery.A popular talk show aired last Thursday by Jiangsu Satellite Television...
