BEIJING - China's Communist-controlled legislature approved an economic roadmap for the next five years and a charity law among a series of measures Wednesday at the close of its annual meeting.As the balloting started in the Great Hall of...
BANGLADESH - Bangladesh's central bank chief resigned on Tuesday, after hackers stole $81 million from the nation's foreign reserves in one of the biggest bank heists in history, the finance minister said.The audacious cyber-theft has embarrassed the government, triggered...
MYANMAR - Myanmar's next president may be little known outside his homeland but for Aung San Suu Kyi, who plucked her schoolfriend and longtime aide from the political sidelines to be her proxy, it is Htin Kyaw's loyalty that...
BANGKOK - Thai police charged two executives of a fire safety company with negligence Tuesday after a malfunctioning extinguisher system killed eight people inside a Bangkok bank Sunday night.The accident happened while contract workers were upgrading the chemical fire...
MYANMAR - Myanmar's lawmakers Tuesday elected a close aide and longtime friend of Aung San Suu Kyi to become the country's first civilian president in decades, a historic moment for the formerly junta-run nation.Htin Kyaw, 69, won 360 of...
Mr Kim Sang Soon, a Go teacher in southern Seoul, has been much busier these days fielding queries from parents and students on courses in the ancient chess game."There are indeed many more calls and visits from children, especially...
Indonesia is considering scrapping subsidies on diesel fuel, an energy ministry official said late on Monday, as part of efforts to create much-needed government spending room, although the plan still requires approval from parliament.Shortly after he took office in...
Taiwan's president-elect Tsai Ing-wen made her first major appointment Tuesday by naming a former economist as premier in a bid to kickstart the island's flagging fortunes.Lin Chuan is a former finance minister and will take office on May 20...
NAYPYITAW - Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state who does not hail from a military background since the...
HONG KONG - Beijing accepts that several young pro-democracy "radicals" will be elected to Hong Kong's law making Legislative Council in September, a Hong Kong newspaper cited a top Chinese official as saying, as tensions in the city over...
