SHANGHAI - China's new policy allowing families to have two children, up from one, has been reverberating across the country as municipalities race to help expectant mothers stay in the workforce, then look after their newborns.Female workers in China...
JAKARTA - Hoping to boost tax revenue, Indonesia is mulling a new regulation that will require Google, Facebook and Twitter and other foreign online service providers to obtain a "permanent establishment" status in the country.A permanent establishment means foreign...
TSU, Japan - The city of Iga in central Japan said Thursday that it will recognise same-sex partnerships as equivalent to marriage, becoming the third local government to take a step to eliminate discrimination against sexual minorities.The city in...
A young couple were convicted of selling their 18-day-old daughter via an instant messaging service so they could afford to buy a smartphone and a motorcycle.According to the Shanghaiist, the couple who are both 19 and hail from the...
China wants to boost its limp charity sector, as part of its grand plan to eliminate poverty within five years. The details of a proposed charity law that would boost donations in one of the world's least giving nations...
Sri Lankan police Thursday arrested two men for torturing a sea eagle after pictures on social media showed the endangered bird being skinned alive and its legs cut off.Police at the beach resort of Habaraduwa, 130 kilometres south of...
Naypyidaw, Myanmar - Aung San Suu Kyi's party Thursday nominated her former driver and close aide to be Myanmar's next president, as the Nobel laureate looks to rule her former junta-run homeland through a trusted proxy.Suu Kyi has vowed...
NARATHIWAT, THAILAND - Two soldiers were killed in a bomb blast in Thailand's Muslim-majority deep south, police said Thursday, the latest deaths from a recent uptick in violence in the insurgency-plagued region.Shootings and explosions are a near daily occurrence...
SEOUL - North Korea said on Thursday it has scrapped all agreements with the South on exchanges and economic co-operation projects and that it would "liquidate" the assets of South Korean firms and government agencies left in its territory.The...
Seoul - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its eastern coast on Thursday, fuelling military tensions after its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.South Korea's defence ministry said the two missiles were fired...
