A Myanmar court yesterday sentenced a New Zealand bar manager and his business associates to 2 1/2 years in prison for insulting Buddhism in an online advertisement that showed a psychedelic depiction
The Philippine government said yesterday that four Filipino nurses reported to have been kidnapped from a Libyan hospital by militants from an Islamic State group affiliate were actually taken to
Nepal is adding more medical staff at Mount Everest’s base camp and working to speed up rescue efforts, officials said yesterday, in steps to boost safety after 16 local guides were
Relief workers saw a flattened landscape and widespread destruction in Vanuatu’s outer islands yesterday after struggling for days to reach the areas of the South Pacific nation hardest hit by a
The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will meet this week for their first trilateral talks in three years, Seoul officials said yesterday. The annual talks, which began
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival was on the line yesterday in a hard-fought parliamentary election pitting his nationalist and security-first ideology against his challengers’ focus on the plight
Top U.S. and Iranian diplomats returned to talks yesterday, seeking to resolve differences blocking a deal that would curtail Iran’s nuclear program and ease sanctions on the country. Among the
In a landslide victory for change, the government swept the polls in all four provinces, and all but one of 15 referendum regions. It won 68.6% of the vote in a
A woman stepped into the shower this week to help ease the discomfort of stomach pains. She emerged holding a newborn. Brittany Young, 24, told the Des Moines Register that she
Wales has been forced by injuries to start new props in the Six Nations decider against Italy in Rome on Saturday. Loosehead Rob Evans and tighthead Aaron Jarvis will carryo on
Much-traveled coach Dick Advocaat took his first job in English soccer yesterday when he was hired by Sunderland in the latest late-season change by the perennial Premier League struggler. The 67-year-old
The lowest-ranked team in world soccer won again yesterday and advanced to the second round of World Cup qualifying. Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom ranked 209th by FIFA, beat Sri Lanka
Hong Kong has been hitting the headlines for all the right reasons over the past few days with its current contemporary cultural happenings attracting the worldwide glitterati. The third edition
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A 23-year-old boxer died yesterday two days after losing consciousness after losing a 10-round featherweight bout. Family spokesman James O’Shea confirmed Braydon Smith, who was in the final year of
CHINA Two Chinese taxi-hailing apps that merged in February issued a set of standards yesterday to govern their ride-on-demand service, which has run afoul of state and local regulators over
Robert Durst, a millionaire from one of America’s wealthiest families, was arrested just before the finale of a serial documentary about his links to three sensational murders in which he
The annual Macau Arts Festival (MAF) is returning to stages city-wide on May 1, now in its 26th year. Through the month of May, it will host 30 shows and
The accident, which killed a motorcyclist on the spot, involved a motorbike, a truck, as well as a cab. The initial investigation disclosed that the dead scooter driver, aged 24,
Mr Wong has served as DSAT head since the bureau’s creation in 2008. He has allegedly requested not to renew his current contract, which expires in May. Last week, the Secretary
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