North Korea’s Kim horseback ride spurs policy shift speculation
New pictures of Kim Jong Un riding a white horse through a winter landscape to the summit of Mount Paektu, a sacred peak for North Koreans, have fuelled speculation that…
Hong Kong leader slams US senator for ‘police state’ remark
Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday hit back at a US senator who said the city is becoming a police state, a day after a massive rally called on Washington to…
What do we tell the kids? Children’s TV struggles with LGBTQ characters
by Fiachra GIBBONS Once upon a time in children's television land frogs were kissed but princesses only ever married princes. Now Prince Charming might just as easily ride off into…
An Indonesian pedicab driver’s love triangle
A heart-broken pedicab driver could not take it anymore and killed a rival who was dating his lover, a woman whose husband lives in Kalimantan. 38-year-old, Budiono fell in love…
S. Korea may acquire nuclear submarines after North’s test
South Korea's Navy is considering acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, it said Thursday in a surprise announcement which would change the balance of power in north-east Asia and is likely to upset…
Suspected IS radical stabs Indonesian’s security minister Wiranto
by Agnes Anya A suspected IS radical stabbed Indonesia's chief security minister as he was exiting a vehicle Thursday, leaving two deep wounds in his stomach and injuring three others…
University lecturer allegedly financed bomb plot in Chinese shops to start looting spree in Jakarta
A university lecturer from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture has been accused of financing a plot to petrol bomb Chinese-owned shops in Jakarta to spark a looting spree in Jakarta…
Five years on, Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella’ generation has sharp edge
by Jasmine Leung and Yan Zhao From doing homework by torchlight to hurling flaming molotov cocktails at riot police: the character of Hong Kong's protests has changed dramatically in five…
US blacklists 28 Chinese entities over ‘brutal’ Xinjiang abuses
The US is to blacklist 28 Chinese entities that it says are implicated in rights violations and abuses targeting Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, the…
China punishes NBA as crisis over democracy tweet deepens
by Dan Martin China on Tuesday pulled NBA exhibition games from television screens as the league faced an escalating punishment campaign in the lucrative Chinese market ignited by an American…