Seoul - North Korea threatened pre-emptive and "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes against South Korea and the United States on Monday, as the two allies kicked off their annual, large-scale military exercises.The drills always raise tensions on the divided Korean peninsula...
Beijing - China's ruling Communist Party punished nearly 300,000 of its members last year for corruption, its graft watchdog said amid a wide-ranging crackdown by President Xi Jinping on official malfeasance.The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said on...
Beijing - Twelve people were killed in a coal mine accident in China, state media reported Monday, the latest incident in the country's notoriously dangerous industry.Coal gas flooded a colliery in Baishan, in the northeastern province of Jilin, killing...
BEIJING - The relatives of a dozen Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 began filing suits against the company at a Beijing court Monday, just a day before a legal deadline to do so.Packed into a small...
Jakarta - A total solar eclipse will sweep across the vast Indonesian archipelago this week, witnessed by hordes of sky gazers and marked by parties, colourful tribal rituals and Muslim prayers.From jungle-clad Sumatra in the west to the spice-fringed...
SEOUL - North Korea has threatened "indiscriminate" nuclear strikes against South Korea and the US mainland, as the two allies prepared to kick off large-scale joint military drills on Monday (March 7).The threat to carry out what it described...
The remains of a woman were found in an elevator after a malfunction trapped her inside for over a month.According to NetEase, the police found a female corpse in the lift of an apartment building in China's Xian city...
Manila - An American woman was infected with the Zika virus while visiting the Philippines, health department officials said Sunday, the first case detected in the country for several years.Health Secretary Janette Garin said the US Centres for Disease...
SCHOOL STANDS OUTPondok Pesantren Ibnu Mas'ud is tucked deep in the hills near Mount Salak, an eroded volcano in Indonesia, not far from Bogor city in West Java province.The pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, in Sukajaya village is not...
BEIJING - China's economy isn't headed for a hard landing and isn't dragging on the global economy, China's top economic planner said on Sunday, but uncertainty and instability in the global economy do pose a risk to the country's growth.China...
