In the middle of removing weeds from his vegetable plot, Mr Bai Ning stops and gazes into the distance.He casts a rueful look at the soil under his feet which, for generations, had provided a living for his family in Xiaodiantou village.
Within just six hours of the bank robbery in Holland Village, the suspect was roaming the streets of Bangkok.Former police officers told The Straits Times yesterday that they were puzzled as to how that could have happened.
Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain went to war alongside the US in Iraq in 2003 on the basis of flawed intelligence that went unchallenged, a shaky legal rationale, inadequate preparation and exaggerated public statements, an independent inquiry into the war concluded in a report published yesterday.
Since the start of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) aggressive online campaign in justifying its own brand of caliphate, children have been targeted as a subject of propaganda and featured alongside adult fighters in visual reports as well as videos.
Two men who hurled a grenade at a nightspot in Selangor last week, the first attack by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Malaysia, had actually wanted to attack a bigger pub with more people, the New Straits Times newspaper reported yesterday.
Mr Benigno Aquino was the big-picture president. He saw the numbers, knew what had to be done and did it.
As Australia faces the unexpected prospect of a hung Parliament, the fate of the nation is set to rest on an unlikely handful of little-known independent MPs whose support will be vital to propping up a future government.
A "young at heart" Facebook post by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to mark Youth Day on Sunday (July 3) has prompted a deluge of jump shot photos from fellow Singaporeans.
Malaysian police are bracing themselves for potential lone-wolf attacks by supporters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after the militants issued a threat to Bukit Aman in a propaganda video.
The Philippine military has dismissed as mere “propaganda” a video purportedly released by militants to recruit radicals from South-east Asia into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
After watching a chunk of her Sydney beachside home fall into the sea, Mrs Zaza Silk returned to her precariously located property and defiantly declared she had no intention of moving.
The body of Lane Graves, the two-year-old boy pulled by an alligator into a lagoon near the Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, was found intact on Wednesday (June 15) afternoon.
Singaporeans travelling to Myanmar will no longer need to apply for a visa from Dec 1.
Mr Rodrigo Duterte is not always a man of his word. He has said so himself: "If it's preposterous, don't believe me." This makes the Philippines' 16th president a tough nut to crack, especially for people who make a living out of weaving together words, like journalists.
At a Donald Trump rally in Anaheim, California, nearly two weeks ago, Ms Zeng Ling shared a stage and shook hands with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
US President Barack Obama will host a state dinner for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the White House on Aug 2, marking the first time PM Lee has been honoured with such a function.
An eclectic mix of leftists, academics and close friends has formed Filipino President-elect Rodrigo Duterte's new Cabinet, which he unveiled yesterday at a news conference.
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