Category: World

HONG KONG: Hundreds gathered outside Ocean Park Hong Kong three hours before opening on Sunday to see the city’s first locally born giant panda twins,

JAKARTA: President Prabowo Subianto has called corruption Indonesia’s “biggest disease,” blaming it for the country’s declining performance across all sectors. Speaking via video at the 2025

BANGKOK: Thai prosecutors on Friday formally indicted Boon Vanasin, the 86-year-old former chairman of Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG), for loan fraud totalling 16 billion baht ($480

SHANGHAI: A Chinese giant panda research centre announced on Friday that Eimei, repatriated from Japan in 2023, passed away in late January at the age

PARIS: British surgeon and former Paralympian John McFall has been medically cleared for a mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), making him the first astronaut

SEOUL: Four people have died and four more were injured in a fire in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan yesterday, the National Fire

HANOI (Vietnam): Nearly 60 people working in a crypto fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from Vietnamese nationals have been arrested in Cambodia and

SYDNEY: Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia powered into Australia’s minerals-rich west coast yesterday, with gusts of 290 kilometres per hour sparking emergency warnings and closing ports.

SANTIAGO (Chile): A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in southern Chile, before spitting him out unharmed, an amazing escape that was all captured on

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump was appointed chairman of the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, as a new board of trustees loyal to the US president brought his