March 27, 2014 12:45 PM SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean police on Thursday named 22 people who may face criminal charges over the collapse last month of a gymnasium packed with students that killed 10 people, mostly college freshmen. ...
March 27, 2014 4:29 AM PARIS (AFP) - Beijing and Paris signed scores of deals Wednesday worth 18 billion euros (S$31.4 billion) on the second day of a lavish state visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in what President Francois Hollande said would bring much-needed growth. ...
March 27, 2014 12:50 AM COLOMBO (REUTERS) - Six men went on trial in Sri Lanka on Wednesday on charges they murdered a British aid worker and gang-raped his Russian fiancee, following two years of international pressure to prosecute the defendants, who include a member of the country's ruling party. ...
March 26, 2014 3:59 AM THE HAGUE (REUTERS) - US President Barack Obama brought together the leaders of Japan and South Korea on Tuesday for their first face-to-face talks, seeking to thaw chilly relations between two of Washington's closest Asian allies. ...
March 26, 2014 5:24 AM GENEVA (REUTERS) - North Korea said on Tuesday that talks with Japan this month should include a demand for compensation for wartime Korean sex slaves and not only the issue of Japanese abducted decades ago which it considers closed. ...
March 26, 2014 5:53 AM WASHINGTON (AFP) - Indian voters are largely comfortable with electing dynastic candidates despite dire predictions in upcoming polls for Mr Rahul Gandhi, scion of the country's most celebrated political family, a survey said on Tuesday. ...
March 26, 2014 7:34 AM SEOUL (REUTERS) - North Korea fired two mid-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast and towards Japan early on Wednesday, South Korea's military said as the leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States (US) discussed North Korea's arms programmes. ...
March 26, 2014 12:19 AM BEIJING (REUTERS) - China's energy-hungry, high-polluting industries continued to grow too fast in 2013, putting "huge pressures" on the environment and causing air quality to worsen, the country's pollution agency said on Tuesday. ...
March 25, 2014 3:33 PM TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has invited the leaders of a student protest movement to his office in a bid to resolve an impasse about a controversial trade pact with mainland China. ...
March 25, 2014 3:44 PM BEIJING (AFP) - Premature deaths and health problems from air pollution cost China as much as US$300 billion (S$381.6 billion) a year, an official report said on Tuesday, calling for a new urbanisation model for the world's second-largest economy. ...
March 25, 2014 4:03 PM DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh war crimes investigators moved Tuesday to outlaw the country's largest Islamic party, accusing it of genocide and other atrocities during the 1971 bloody struggle for independence. ...
March 25, 2014 4:20 PM VARANASI, India (AFP) - The leader of a fledgling Indian anti-corruption party was expected to announce plans on Tuesday to stand against election frontrunner and opposition leader Narendra Modi in the holy city of Varanasi. ...
March 25, 2014 5:12 PM HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Chinese citizens are feverishly snapping up face masks as worsening air pollution fuels a multi-million dollar industry where many products fail to provide even basic protection, drawing calls for better oversight and standards. ...
March 25, 2014 5:18 PM KABUL (AFP) - Militants launched a gun and suicide attack on an Afghan election commission office in Kabul on Tuesday, police said, less than two weeks before the presidential poll. ...
March 25, 2014 5:29 PM NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian police arrested on Tuesday the alleged head of militant group the Indian Mujahideen, blamed for a string of deadly attacks including one at a rally in October by election frontrunner Narendra Modi, reports said. ...
March 25, 2014 6:28 PM BEIJING (AFP) - The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo suffered a heart attack two months ago and has been diagnosed with depression after years of house arrest, a rights group said Tuesday. ...
March 25, 2014 6:44 PM HONG KONG (AFP) - Two construction workers in Hong Kong plunged 56 storeys to their deaths Tuesday, fire authorities said, after the scaffolding they stood upon snapped in two. ...
March 25, 2014 7:45 PM SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - Hundreds of people rushed on Tuesday to withdraw money from branches of two small Chinese banks after rumours spread about solvency at one of them, reflecting growing anxiety among investors as regulators signal greater tolerance for credit defaults. ...
March 25, 2014 10:05 PM VARANASI, India (AFP) - The leader of a fledgling Indian anti-corruption party Tuesday announced plans to run against frontrunner and opposition leader Narendra Modi in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi in looming elections. ...
March 25, 2014 10:07 PM BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese authorities said on Tuesday they have detained 1,530 people in a crackdown on the use of fake telecommunication base stations to send spam text messages to mobile telephones, a persistent problem in the world's largest cellphone market. ...