A new US$750 million scholarship scheme at Stanford University is set to be used to train top students from across the globe, including possibly from Hong Kong, as future world leaders.
April 2 will remain a life of agony for most families of students who died in the Garissa University College terror attack in northern Kenya a year ago.
Egypt's public prosecution officially asked Cypriot authorities on Wednesday to extradite a national who hijacked and forced an Egyptian plane to land at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, state-run MENA news agency reported.
A new chairman has been named to succeed York Chow as head of the Equal Opportunities Commission (eoc). Chow will be succeeded by Alfred Chan Cheung-ming, who is the current chairman of the Commission on the Elderly.
Last fall, soccer fans celebrated refugee children at a legendary Munich stadium; today, European voters are boosting anti-immigrant political parties and governments are closing their gates to new arrivals. The refrain of Europe's migrant crisis has changed from "welcome" to "enough already."
A Tokyo cartoonist has created a manga epic inspired by his own experiences in the northeastern Tohoku region devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami to “share the feelings of disaster victims.”
Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has nominated Mr Htin Kyaw, long-time party veteran and close personal friend of party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, for the position of president of Myanmar.
The Philippines’ Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday for leading presidential candidate Grace Poe to run in May elections, removing a major obstacle in her bid to become the country’s third female leader.
As the five-year intensive reconstruction period approaches its deadline in late March, the Japanese Tohoku region devastated by a monstrous earthquake-triggered tsunami on March 11, 2011 is still struggling to be revitalized, with a declining population making the huge projects ever harder to complete.
The Bundestag, or lower house of the German parliament, passed on Thursday a package of new regulations to tighten asylum rules in an effort to deal with an unprecedented influx of refugees.
The Oscars this year, to be held on Sunday (Monday morning Singapore time), will be remembered as the one with the cloud of #OscarsSoWhite looming over it.
The Indonesian police are investigating four men who were recently deported from Singapore over allegations of supporting the Islamic State group.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has become the first Singapore politician to hit 1 million likes on his Facebook page.
The White House would seek to avoid a head-on clash with the Republican-controlled Senate by searching for a consensus Supreme Court nominee who can attract support from Senate Republicans, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday.
Mexican police have arrested Guadalupe Fernandez Valencia, also known as "La Patrona," the alleged money handler for the infamous drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera, police sources confirmed Tuesday.
Uncertainty in the 2016 U.S. presidential election began to unfold in an early stage as Texas Senator Ted Cruz won the Iowa Republican caucus with a comfortable lead over billionaire developer Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were deadlocked in a tight Democratic race.
Syrians in the Shiite Sayyidah Zaynab district south of Damascus expressed deep sorrow over the triple bombings that deprived 70 lives of their fellows and relatives earlier on Sunday.
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