SYDNEY: Residents in a recently completed Sydney high-rise apartment block that made “cracking noises” on Christmas Eve were moved out again Thursday as engineers work
MANILA: The United States has warned its citizens that security at the Philippines’s main airport does not meet international standards, urging travellers to exercise “increased
BEIJING: A Canadian is to appear before a court in northeastern China on Saturday for drugs charges, a government-run news portal said, amid frosty relations
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: A towering stack of marijuana that weighed a hefty 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) went up in smoke Thursday as Indonesian police lit
BEIJING: The man who hijacked a bus and crashed it into pedestrians in east China’s Fujian province had killed two others before the incident, state
CARITA, Indonesia: Indonesian search and rescue teams Wednesday plucked stranded residents from remote islands and pushed into isolated communities desperate for aid in the aftermath
ACEH BESAR, Indonesia: Thousands prayed at mass graves Wednesday to mark the 14th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural
TAIPEI: A search was underway for 152 Vietnamese who arrived in Taiwan on tourist visas, authorities said Wednesday, as local media reported they may have
TIANJIN: The trial of a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer took place Wednesday but was closed to the public because of “state secrets”, a northern
CARITA (Indonesia): Indonesian rescuers raced to find survivors yesterday after a volcano-triggered tsunami killed at least 281 people, with experts warning the devastated region could
