Prosecutors said Monday they have discovered recorded phone conversations between a former presidential aide and President Park Geun-hye's longtime friend who is suspected to have peddled influence and meddled in state affairs using her ties to the chief executive.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte chided the United States on Wednesday for halting the planned sale of 26,000 rifles to his country, calling those behind the decision “fools” and “monkeys” and indicating he might turn to Russia and China instead.
A mascot with a shining bald head set up in the lobby offers a clue to a bizarre discount deal offered by a hotel in this city on the western island of Kyushu.
Salar Bugti, 24, joined police training institute of Pakistan's southwest Quetta city last year to earn bread and butter for his wife and one-year-old son, but was killed in a deadly attack by three suicide bombers at his hostel late Monday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is now in Beijing to warm up his country's ice-cold ties with China. The move has nothing to do with Manila's traditional alliance with Washington.
Authorities are closely monitoring about 40 returnees and are concerned they could be linking up with existing networks
A week-long Chinese film festival kicked off here Thursday to highlight the diversity of recent Chinese cinema and the talent of its directors.
Two percent of males in Britain identify themselves as gay or bisexual, the government's Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported Wednesday.
More Australians are turning their back on the coalition government's plan to hold a public vote, or plebiscite, on whether or not same-sex couples can legally marry, the results of a new poll have shown.
The United States and Russia should consider pulling out of Syria if they cannot agree to a ceasefire, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Monday.
Researchers have combined sensor and video technologies to reveal how whales, the largest animals to ever have existed on Earth, subsist on krill and fish, sometimes as small as a paper clip.
Chinese couples no longer have to get birth permissions before they want in vitro fertilization (IVF).
The 2016 presidential race is seen by many as the most divisive and scandalous in the U.S. history.
With divorce on the rise, marriage counselors say they are helping more couples find their way through troubled waters, as Zhou Wenting reports from Shanghai.
A 16-year-old has made $64,100 from a website she made to give Chinese babies English names.
A rare spotlight is being cast on Laos as world leaders, including President Obama, prepare to gather in its capital, Vientiane, for meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, and other countries beginning on Tuesday.
Korean workers sleep only six hours on average but work for more than 10 hours a day, a straw poll suggests.
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