April 07, 2014 1:06 AM ROME (Reuters) - The Italian ambassador to Turkmenistan has been detained by the police in the Philippines, who have accused him of violating laws on the safeguarding of children, the Foreign Ministry in Rome said on Sunday. ...
April 06, 2014 1:55 AM BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese ship involved in the Indian Ocean search for flight MH370 detected a "pulse signal" at a frequency used by aircraft black boxes on Saturday, but Australia warned there was no evidence yet that it was linked to the missing plane. ...
April 05, 2014 1:54 PM MANILA (REUTERS) - The Philippines said on Saturday it had awarded the US$390 million (S$491 million) deal to renovate, expand and operate the Mactan-Cebu international airport to India's GMR Infrastructure Ltd and local partner Megawide Construction Corp. ...
April 05, 2014 2:52 PM PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - AirAsia has apologised over an article published on its in-flight travel magazine travel 3sixty April edition, which appeared to be sarcastic towards the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight. ...
April 05, 2014 3:05 PM JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The National Police named PT Coca Cola Bottling Indonesia (CCB) a suspect on Friday, in an alleged illegal groundwater extraction case in Sumedang, West Java. ...
April 05, 2014 3:56 PM SEMPORNA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysian and Philippine security forces are scouring scores of islands in the Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces for a former Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) soldier known as "Haji Gulam" and his men. ...
April 05, 2014 6:08 PM Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein delivered a press briefing on the progress of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. ...
April 05, 2014 7:58 PM BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese ship searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 detected a "pulse signal" in the southern Indian Ocean on Saturday, but there was no evidence yet that it was linked to the missing plane, state media said. ...
April 05, 2014 8:21 PM PERTH, Australia (AFP) - Two vessels searched underwater for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Saturday, as air and sea missions failed to find any sign of the plane and the clock ticked on the signal from its black box. ...
April 05, 2014 8:26 PM DAVAO, Philippines (AFP) - A huge night fire sent slum swellers running for their lives and destroyed more than a thousand homes in the Philippines' largest southern city, officials said on Saturday. ...
April 05, 2014 8:44 PM Four weeks after the plane vanished, The Straits Times brings you intimate details on the hunt in an interactive Web Special. Get special reports, videos and graphics. ...
April 05, 2014 12:53 PM KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia has joined other Islamic countries in banning the Hollywood biblical epic Noah starring Russell Crowe, decrying it as irreligious and saying it violates Islamic law against depicting prophets. ...
April 05, 2014 12:58 PM BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Thousands of supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra travelled by bus, pickup truck and train on Saturday to join a three-day rally on the outskirts of Bangkok aimed at countering months of sometimes violent anti-government protests. ...
April 05, 2014 2:49 AM JAKARTA (AFP) - A landslide triggered by heavy rain derailed a train as it travelled through Indonesia's main island of Java on Friday, leaving five people dead, an official said. ...
April 04, 2014 1:26 PM President Tony Tan on Friday presented over $7 million in donations to partners of Singapore Red Cross that are helping relief and rehabilitation efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. ...
April 04, 2014 2:01 AM JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia has agreed to pay seven million riyal (S$2.4 million) to stop the impending execution of an Indonesian maid on death row in Saudi Arabia for murder, a minister said Thursday. ...
April 04, 2014 2:37 PM PERTH (AFP) - A US Navy "black box" detector made its much-anticipated debut in the oceanic hunt for flight MH370 on Friday but Australia's search chief warned it was crunch time with the box's signal set to expire soon. ...
April 04, 2014 4:15 PM MANILA (AFP) - Philippine soldiers have been deployed to a remote southern island where suspected Islamic militants are believed to have taken two female hostages seized from a resort in neighbouring Malaysia, the military said on Friday. ...
April 04, 2014 4:19 PM BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Hundreds of thousands of Thai government supporters are expected to descend on Bangkok this weekend in a symbolic show of force after months of sometimes violent protests aimed at bringing down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. ...
April 04, 2014 5:12 PM MANILA (AFP) - Eight Filipino coastguards have been charged with the murder of a Taiwanese fisherman who was shot dead last year sparking economic sanctions against the Philippines, authorities said on Friday. ...