Category: World

TOKYO, Japan: Kokichi Akuzawa, 102, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to climb Mount Fuji. A retired livestock farmer from

JENESANO (Colombia): Skirts swirl and hats fly on a soccer field in Jenesano in central Colombia, as the “Smelly Ones” face off against the “Fillies”

JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities in Indramayu Regency, West Java, are planning to release 10,000 nonvenomous snakes into paddy fields to combat rat infestations that threaten rice

GENEVA (Switzerland): More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal

VINH (Vietnam): The death toll from Typhoon Kajiki rose to three in Vietnam yesterday, as rescue workers battled uprooted trees and downed power lines and

JAKARTA: More than 1,200 security personnel were deployed in Jakarta yesterday to ensure order was maintained during a protest near the parliament complex, police said.

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian parliamentarians passed legislation yesterday allowing people who “collude” with foreign countries to be stripped of citizenship, a law rights groups fear will

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s poll ratings have rebounded a month after disastrous election results left his premiership hanging by a thread, a clutch

YANGON: Myanmar’s ruling military junta said on Sunday a colonial-era bridge that was once the world’s highest railway trestle had been “bombed and destroyed” by

BEIJING: China saw a surge in new coal power in the first half of the year even as the country added record levels of clean