MANILA - President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said Wednesday (Oct 5) the Philippines may need to turn to Russia to fulfil...

WASHINGTON – Taiwan will not rely on others for its defence, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday (Oct 5), while welcoming a...

DHAKA – Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity on Tuesday (Oct 4) after a grid failure, a government official...

PHUKET, Thailand - Worshippers on Thailand's Phuket island have celebrated a nine-day Taoist festival, with many piercing their faces with...

STOCKHOLM/LONDON - Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday (Oct 3) for...

A 77-year-old South Korean fringe religious leader, already a convicted rapist, was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting two women...

SEOUL – Hwang Rae-ha is 80 years old and despairs of ever seeing his mother again after the Korean war...

Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday (Oct 3), seeking $475 million (S$680 million) in punitive damages and...

LONDON - Europe's energy crisis has upended the green transition and undermined efforts keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius,...

Lawyers for Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, facing a US lawsuit over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist...