Fire engulfs World Heritage castle in Japan’s Okinawa
by Hiroshi HIYAMA / Kyoko HASEGAWA A major fire devastated a historic Japanese castle on the southern island of Okinawa on Thursday morning, destroying large parts of the World Heritage…
by Hiroshi HIYAMA / Kyoko HASEGAWA A major fire devastated a historic Japanese castle on the southern island of Okinawa on Thursday morning, destroying large parts of the World Heritage…
by Jerome TAYLOR Hong Kong on Thursday confirmed it had plunged into its first recession since the global financial crisis as months of seething pro-democracy protests and the US-China trade…
Asian markets slipped Wednesday as traders play a wait-and-see game ahead of the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision, with expectations of another interest rate cut but focus also on its…
Grieving relatives tossed flowers into the sea Tuesday where an Indonesian Lion Air jet crashed a year ago, killing all 189 on board, after a final accident report pointed to…
Jakarta— President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo landed in West Papua and Papua on Sunday in his first visit to the restive region after violent unrest broke out in August. During the visit,…
A political science lecturer at the Muhammadiyah University in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Dr Ahmad Atang said Subianto Prabowo's joining President Joko (Jokowi) Widodo's cabinet has weakened the opposition in Indonesia. But…
In an analysis on what Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently said on Hong Kong's prolonged unrest, Alice Wu a political consultant and a former associate director of the Asia…
by Anuj Chopra Dozens of global policymakers and tycoons will attend a Saudi investment summit starting Tuesday, helping the kingdom turn the page on a critic's murder that triggered a…
by Jenny Vaughan, with Tran Thi Minh Ha in Nghe An Young, aspirational and poor Vietnamese are risking their lives to travel to Europe, taking on large debts to join…
Indonesian domestic helper Susi Nur Handayani, 27, was sentenced to four months of jail time on Friday (Oct 25) for stealing a passport that belongs to a fellow resident in a …