MANILA - China has stationed up to five ships around a disputed atoll in the South China Sea, preventing Filipino fishermen from accessing traditional fishing grounds, media in the Philippines reported on Wednesday.The Philippine Star newspaper, quoting an unnamed...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Eighteen people were publicly caned Tuesday for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia's Aceh province, including a young unmarried couple who were caught spending time alone together.A hooded man meted out lashings with a rattan cane...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Eighteen people were publicly caned Tuesday for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia's Aceh province, including a young unmarried couple who were caught spending time alone together.A hooded man meted out lashings with a rattan cane...
Naypyidaw - Myanmar's parliament will bring forward a vote for the next president to March 10, it was announced Tuesday, leaving little time for Aung San Suu Kyi to strike a deal to let her take the top office.The...
China should supply the bulk of the investment needed for a planned railway from the Thai-Laos border to the Gulf of Thailand as the project will benefit Beijing, Thailand's transport minister said.The proposed line, part of China's efforts to...
KATHMANDU - Nepal has extended the climbing permits of hundreds of foreigners forced to abandon the Himalayas after last year's twin earthquakes, the government said on Tuesday, to encourage them to return to the mountains.At least 19 climbers were...
A MAN, who was merely threatening suicide in protest of his wife travelling overseas for work, accidentally hung himself from a tree, Makkal Osai reported.To make it worse, neighbours and authorities who arrived at the scene could not retrieve...
AIRSOFT guns to fire metal bullets can easily be purchased via Facebook, reported Berita Harian.The daily said that the guns, costing between RM600 (S$201) and RM3,000, were being sold through several closed groups on the social media platform.The daily...
RAIPUR, India - Police killed eight suspected rebels including five women in a gunbattle in central India on Tuesday, local officers said, the latest deadly encounter in the country's long-running Maoist insurgency.Police ambushed a large group of heavily armed...
