MANILA - A Philippine senator believes that President Rodrigo Duterte's 'colourful language' will not scare off investors.
For as long as President Rodrigo Duterte's verbal tirades do not "metamorphose" into official state policy, then no great harm is done, "except maybe...
Three Nominated MPs (NMPs) have made the unusual move of proposing changes to a Bill on laws of contempt of court, as they believe it will make the legislation clearer.NMP Mahdev Mohan, an assistant professor of law at Singapore...
China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest iOS app market in the third quarter, according to a report released on Thursday by App Annie, a US-based mobile analytics company.
The company said that with 75 per...
Bangkok - Thais should "socially sanction" those accused of defaming the monarchy following the death of King Bhumibol, the junta's justice minister said Tuesday, as he vowed to hunt down critics both at home and overseas.
The death of the...
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani authorities have barred the family of a murdered social media celebrity from legally "forgiving" their son for strangling her, sources said, in a rare stand against the so-called practice of "honour killings".Muhammad Waseem drugged and strangled...
HONG KONG - A new generation of young Hong Kong politicians advocating a break from Beijing looked set to become lawmakers for the first time Monday in the biggest poll since mass pro-democracy rallies in 2014.A record 2.2 million...
Suspected Indonesian militant Gigih Rahmat Dewa is the ringleader of a little-known local terror cell called Katibah GR, or "Cell GR".Indonesian police arrested him - along with his wife and baby - as well as five other cell members...
All roads led to the Grand Palace yesterday as the Royal Household Bureau opened the Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall to the public to pay respects before the royal urn for the first time since the King passed away...
DENPASAR - A British man accused of murdering a policeman on Indonesia's Bali island hit the victim in the head with binoculars during a struggle on a beach, his lawyer said Monday.David Taylor claims he was pushed by the...
YANGON - Myanmar on Tuesday scrapped a law used by the former military government to silence political activists, which threatened jail for anyone who endangered public morality or execution for damaging telephone lines.
The Emergency Provisions Act, passed in 1950...
