A small group of women in uniform white shorts and shirts with name tags sat at a table, hunched over sketchbooks as they worked on improving their drawing skills in a nondescript room in Taguig City.The scene looked like...
When you're a cop in a country of 1.3 billion people, playing hide-and-seek with suspected criminals can be a daunting task.Researchers at a Chinese university say they have the solution: drive-and-seek.A team at the University of Electronic Science and...
SAPPORO, Japan - The latest piece of Japan's bullet train network opened Saturday, providing the missing link that many hope will give rise to a new economic corridor stretching north from Tokyo.Called the Hokkaido Shinkansen, the new, roughly 149km...
TAIPEI - Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party, known in Chinese as the Kuomintang, picked as its new leader a woman it had ditched as its presidential candidate weeks before January's election after a wave of criticism of her campaign.Pro-China Hung...
South Korea - South Korean activists launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea on Saturday, amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula, using a propaganda tool that usually sparks threats of reprisals.Conservative activists, including many North...
A teenage volleyball player in China gave birth to a baby in a gymnasium toilet before leaving the girl in some bushes and returning to her tournament, state-run media reported Friday.The girl went into labour while filming a match...
Seoul - North Korea released a new propaganda video Saturday menacingly titled "Last Chance", showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames.The four-minute video romps through the history of US-Korean...
Malaysia has said that more than 100 Chinese fishing boats have been spotted within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off Sarawak and it planned to take action against them.The boats were sighted near Beting Patinggi Ali, also known as...
SEOUL/DAEJEON - Despite several early failures, Korean engineers and scientists are poised to leap into space, hoping to realise the country's long-cherished goal of reaching the moon.Following a late start, Asia's fourth-largest economy went through many challenges to develop...
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The Kuomintang (KMT) will choose its seventh chairman in an election between four candidates on Saturday. Results are expected to be known by 7 p.m., while the party's new leader could take office as early as...
