For about 15 minutes, Mr Ruffy Biazon navigated a maze of alleys three-men wide that snaked through a packed squatters colony in Muntinlupa city, 30km south-east of the capital Manila.
The kidnapped son of Pakistan's former prime minister has been freed three years after gunmen abducted him, his party's chairman said on Tuesday (May 10).
Indonesian authorities are set to bring charges against radical ideologue Aman Abdurrahman for his part in plotting the Jan 14 terrorist attack in Jakarta.
The Malaysian government said yesterday that it will partially lift a ban on the hiring of low-skilled foreign workers, just two months after halting their intake.
At least 10 people died across the Philippines in election day violence on Monday (May 9), as gunmen attacked polling stations, ambushed vehicles and stole vote counting machines, police said.
Australia signed a A$280 million (S$284.45 million) contract with naval shipbuilder Austal Ships Pty on Thursday (May 5) for 21 patrol boats, the first stage of its military expansion, the government said.
North Korea raised the curtain Friday (May 6) on its biggest political show for a generation, aimed at cementing the absolute rule of leader Kim Jong Un and shadowed by the possibility of an imminent nuclear test.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (May 6) in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in a bid to bolster ties and seek to resolve a decades-long territorial dispute.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop may have inadvertently allowed her partner to view "highly sensitive" documents by inviting him onto the floor of a United Nations (UN) meeting in New York last year.
Recent satellite images suggest North Korea has completed the external refurbishment of a shipyard dedicated to building and launching a new class of ballistic missile submarine, a US think-tank said yesterday.
North Korea has started welcoming delegates from around the country to its first ruling party congress in 36 years, as rival South Korea expressed concern that Pyongyang could conduct a nuclear test before or during the event.
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party will on Friday (May 6) open its biggest meeting in more than three decades, with the focus on the course Kim Jong Un will chart for the isolated nation.
China has told Japan to take a "positive attitude" towards China's growth if it wishes to mend ties, rather than play up the threat posed by the rising superpower.
India successfully launched the last of seven navigation satellites yesterday, putting in place an indigenous alternative to the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and entering an exclusive club of countries with such capabilities.
Indonesia has not given Singapore a list of its fugitives as previously reported, said the foreign ministries of the two countries.
With the European football championship and Olympics approaching, Samsung has released its latest line-up of SUHD TVs (Samsung's acronym for its premium ultra high-definition models).
An emotional plea by India's top judge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to appoint more judges has put the spotlight on the country's overburdened justice system, which has a chronic backlog of more than 33 million cases.
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