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Fans of Kang Daniel donated 12.1 million Korean won to the Korea Association for Children with Terminal Diseases on the South Korean singer and songwriter’s23rd birthday. Korean pop culture site Allkpop reported that fans said it was only a small amount of money in a letter to the association. The donators hope a cure can be […]

A Tokyo court on Thursday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to a transgender official who was refused use of the women’s bathroom at work. “The Tokyo district court ordered the accused to pay 1.3 million yen ($12,000) in damages,” a court spokesman told AFP. “The court also ordered the government to let the […]

by Anup Sharma Authorities deployed thousands of paramilitaries and blocked mobile internet in northeast India Thursday, while police fired blank rounds at protesters who defied a curfew to demonstrate against contentious new citizenship legislation. The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), passed by the upper house on Wednesday, allows for the fast-tracking of citizenship applications from religious […]

Flanked by more than 2,000 oarsmen rowing to a steady drumbeat, Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn travelled down Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river as part of a 52-barge flotilla on Thursday, marking the final event of his coronation. The flotilla comes seven months after the monarch was crowned in an elaborate three-day affair that involved sacred bathing […]

by Marty Melville New Zealand’s military will embark on a risky dawn mission to retrieve eight bodies from the still-active White Island volcano, officials said Thursday, as pressure from distraught victims’ families mounted. Teams will move in “shortly after first light” on Friday, deputy police commissioner Mike Clement said, despite volcanologists warning that the chances […]

Hundreds of mourners attended a memorial service on Thursday for a Hong Kong student whose death led to some of the most violent clashes in six months of democracy protests. Alex Chow, 22, died last month from head injuries sustained during a fall inside a multi-storey carpark where police and protesters were clashing. Although the […]

Although she always wanted to be the centre of attention, actress Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson struggles with stardom. Known popularly as Lily James, the 30-year-old British actress went through classical theatrical training from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London but it did not prepare her for what was to come when she started […]

An international panel of experts hired to advise Hong Kong on the police response to huge pro-democracy protests announced Wednesday they were quitting, saying the watchdog was not fit for purpose “in a society that values freedoms and rights”. The group’s damning conclusion is a blow to Hong Kong’s government, which has insisted its Independent […]

Canadian leader Justin Trudeau has been rebuked for his handling of a simmering dispute with China, with lawmakers voting against his government to set up a committee examining relations with Beijing. Diplomatic relations between Canada and China hit rock bottom after last year’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Hangzhou in Vancouver. Former diplomat Michael Kovrig […]

by Sebastian SMITH with Brendan SMIALOWSKI in Hershey, Pennsylvania For a man on the brink of becoming only the third US president to be impeached, Donald Trump sure sounds confident. “You’re so lucky I became your president,” he boomed to cheering supporters late Tuesday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. “A regular president would have been under the […]

Forest fires that raged across Indonesia dented Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to the tune of some $5.2 billion, the World Bank said Wednesday, not including the health impacts from toxic haze that sent air quality plummeting. The fires are an annual problem but this year was the worst since 2015 due to dry weather, with […]

Recently, an art piece titled Comedian which was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan became viral worldwide. The art piece is  simply a single piece of banana duct-taped to the gallery wall. Soon after that, a Singaporean durian seller made a parody of the modest yet ‘sophisticated’ work of art which was displayed at the […]

Princess Leia, the beloved Star Wars character played by late actress Carrie Fisher will be featured in a significant role in the highly anticipated final chapter in the Skywalker film saga. There is enough unused footage of Fisher from the filming of 2015 movie The Force Awakens to make Leia a key player in The […]

Mt. Everest has always been on every mountaineer’s must-conquer lists. It’s jaw-dropping and inspiring, and not just for the usual reasons. Malaysian entrepreneur and environmentalist Zuraina Zaharin used the world’s tallest mountain (and the mound of poop she encountered on it!) as inspiration for her business—a fully-sustainable toilet called the EcoLoo. A joint effort with Swedish […]

by Marty Melville / with Neil Sands in Wellington and Holly Robertson in Sydney Tales of heroism, devastation and horrifying injuries emerged Tuesday after New Zealand’s smouldering White Island volcano exploded, killing an estimated 13 people. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said five people had died and eight more were presumed dead after Monday’s eruption, while […]