ASIA

TOKYO - A new coronavirus variant has been detected in four travellers from Brazil’s Amazonas state, Japan’s Health Ministry said on...

An enhanced smallpox vaccine produced by a research team in Japan has been confirmed to be effective in preventing infection...

For the past three years, Cavin Cheong has been sending his two primary school-aged children to the Confucius Institute (CI)...

Indonesia’s civilian maritime force ended 2020 by arming its vessels with machine guns amid continuing incursions by Chinese and Vietnamese...

TAIPEI — Taiwan Formosan mountain dogs are once again gaining attention on the Internet after an expat working at the Academia...

JAKARTA - “Bye bye family. We’re heading home for now,” Ratih Windania posted on Instagram from Jakarta’s airport with pictures of...

TOKYO - Men wearing traditional loincloths and women dressed in white robes clapped and chanted before going into an ice water...

JAKARTA - Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that...

Landslides caused by heavy rain in West Java killed 11 and injured 18, the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management...

MANILA - More than 400,000 Catholics in the Philippine capital celebrated on Saturday a feast for a centuries-old wooden statue of...