WASHINGTON - A controversial missile defence system whose deployment has angered China is now operational in South Korea, the US military said Monday. Washington and Seoul agreed to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) battery deployment in July in...
Tokyo risks being one of the unhealthiest Olympic Games hosts in years, as an anti-smoking law exposes deep rifts over tobacco tax revenue, personal freedom and the dangers of passive smoking, which kills thousands of Japanese each year. There is...
SEOUL - At least six Samsung workers building a $500 million (S$ 698 million) ocean platform for French energy giant Total were killed in a shipyard crane accident, South Korean authorities said Tuesday. Two cranes collided at the shipyard in...
Puritans might slam their service as sleaze but supporters regard it as an essential sex therapy for the critically disabled. Meet the 'Hand Angels', a group of Taiwanese volunteers who provide a sexual service to those who have lost the...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Foreign Minister David Lee said that international news agency Reuters issued "regrets and apologies" over its latest news coverage, which the Presidential Office said had misrepresented President Tsai Ing-wen. The international news agency published two stories in...
Some 900 Singaporean tourists, including people from the blind and visually impaired community, travelled to Batam, Riau Islands, on three ferries and 22 buses to attend the Wonderful Indonesia Music Festival Cross-Border Batam on April 29 at the Sumatra...
Were they all subservient homebodies while the gallant guys were out defending the new nation? Did females have no role during the four-year fight from the 1945 Proclamation to the 1949 withdrawal of the Dutch after two failed "police actions"...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- After winning Taiwan's first championship at the Badminton Asia Championships in 55 years and her sixth-straight World Super Series title, Tai Tzu-ying said she was actually "unhappy" playing the tournament, because her clothing was oversized. In a...
NEW DELHI -- A Taiwanese trekker who went missing for 47 days in the Himalaya is ready to return to Taiwan, a hospital in the Nepali capital of Kathmandu said Monday. Grande Hospital, where Liang Sheng-yue has been recovering since...
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha accepted an invitation to visit the White House extended by US President Donald Trump during a brief phone conversation on Sunday. Trump called both Prayut and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as he marked...
