Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej is in an “unstable” condition after undergoing multiple medical procedures, and is now confined in a hospital, a...
Thai wildlife officials found the carcasses of 40 dead tiger cubs in a freezer at Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, a monastery...
In 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the island of Honshu Japan and caused a tsunami off the coast of the Miyagi...
Three Turkish academics have been imprisoned in Istanbul because of accusations that they were contributing to “terrorist propaganda”, Nature News reports. The accusations come...
According to a new study published in the journal Science Advances, changes to future land-use will mean population declines for the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo...
North Korea launched a missile equipped with a hydrogen bomb on Friday in its latest nuclear weapon test, which the country announced...
Local residents in Phuket have attacked a police station on the island after riots erupted over the deaths of two young men...
Otis Elevator Co. is facing declining revenues as China’s economy slows. The company rose to success when China’s economy was strong, and...
Choosing to offer Indians hope amid burgeoning and deep-seated corruption in the Indian state, Prime Minister Narendre Modi made headlines this past...
On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender during WII, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered his remorse for all of...
Japanese police raided Toyota Motor Corp.’s offices in Japan on Tuesday in a move which comes less than a week after the...
Despite calls from within and without to overturn the decision, Indonesia’s Attorney General has confirmed that nine prisoners including eight foreigners charged with drug...
The oldest person in the world, a Japanese woman named Misao Okawa, died early Wednesday morning at 117-years-old. Mrs. Okawa celebrated her...
China plans to nearly double the number of general doctors in the country by the year 2020 in a bid to fix...
An extremely rare relative of the rabbit known as the Ili pika, which was first discovered back in 1983, has been spotted...
Lee Kuan Yew, the man who founded modern Singapore and transformed it into one of the wealthiest and least corrupt countries in...
Just as the United States and South Korea finished up the first of two large-scale military exercises on Friday, North Korea test-fired...
North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles off the coast, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry official. The missiles were...
The forestry department in Burma has indicated that it has discovered a rare white elephant in the jungles of the Ayeyarwaddy region....