Tag Archives: Asia

[ad_1] HONG KONG (AFP) – Girls and young women are under the pressure of a social media-driven world that could not have been imagined by 1970s feminists, says psychoanalyst and bestselling author …

[ad_1] Nearly 11,000 years ago, a man died in Nevada. Wrapped in a rabbit-skin blanket and reed mats, he was buried in a place called Spirit Cave. Now scientists have recovered and …

[ad_1] PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA (AFP) – The outgoing commander of US forces in South Korea on Thursday (Nov 8) urged Seoul and Washington to maintain their alliance as differences mount in their …

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA) – The Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur was told on Thursday (Nov 8) that nearly 99.9 per cent of documents in the case involving former prime minister Najib …

[ad_1] A Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy has been freed from jail and is believed to have already flown out of the city of Multan …

[ad_1] Asia Bibi, a Christian farm worker whose blasphemy provoked violent protests and assassinations in Pakistan, is still in prison a week after the country's Supreme Court overturned her conviction. Her husband …

[ad_1] Asia Bibi was desperately thirsty when she took a cup of water in an open pit in 2009, as a worker in a fruit tree plantation in the Pakistani countryside. The …

[ad_1] KOTA KINABALU (THE STAR / ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Party Warisan Sabah president Mohd Shafie Apdal has been declared as the legitimate Sabah Chief Minister. Kuching High Court Judge Yew Jen …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – High-level delegations from government ministries and agencies across Asia in the capital city of Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw to discuss a new strategy for the fight against drugs. The crisis …

[ad_1] PETALING JAYA (THE STAR / ASIA NETWORK NEWS) – Graft-busters have questioned form Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Tan Sri Muhammad Ibrahim over the central bank's controversial RM2 billion (S $ …