BEIJING – China is not mistreating Muslims in Xinjiang province but is putting some people through training courses to avoid extremism spreading, unlike Europe, which...
YANGON – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday robustly defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists for reporting massacres by the military at...
MANILA – The Philippines braced early Friday for the onslaught of Super-Typhoon Mangkhut, whose 240kph (150 mph) winds were on a path for a direct...
CHIANG MAI – World Heritage Working Group in Chiang Mai has completed its paperwork and is ready to make its submission this month to Unesco...
BANGKOK – Six policemen in Bangkok were transferred yesterday to inactive posts and are the subjects of a fact-finding probe over allegations that they raided...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s discount airline, THAI Smile Airways has showcased its new Airbus A320-200 decorated with the new design displaying a unique orange logo of the...
LONDON – Life expectancy in Europe continues to increase but obesity and the growing proportion of people who are overweight risks reversing this trend, the...
GENEVA – The United Nations listed 38 “shameful” countries including China and Russia on Wednesday which it said had carried out reprisals or intimidation against...
BANGKOK – A well-known fortune-teller, widely known as “Sinsae Shogun”, was sentenced to 4,355 years in prison today after she was found guilty of 871...
PACHAKA LO, Shan State, Myanmar – It is the middle of the rainy season in Myanmar, when planting begins in the poppy fields of Shan...