At least 10 people are dead and several missing after heavy rain triggered a landslide in a mountain resort in northern South Korea. Hundreds of rescuers have been sifting through rubble and mud to find survivors in Chuncheon, about 100km (60 miles) east of Seoul. Hotels, restaurants and coffee shops were wrecked when the slide [...]
A Taiwanese army general has been jailed for life for selling military secrets to China. Defence officials said Maj Gen Lo Hsien-che was recruited as a spy for China in 2004, while he was posted to Thailand as a military attache. Prosecutors said he had confessed to the crime, so they had not [...]
South Korea’s ambitions to enter the Indian energy market have received a big boost as the two countries signed a civil nuclear deal. The agreement will allow South Korea to export its nuclear energy technology to India. The deal comes at a time when India has been struggling to keep up its energy supply to [...]
Freida Pinto, the Slum dog Millionaire actor, has said she is willing to take a DNA test to prove that she is Indian. Pinto, who was born in Mumbai, says she is constantly mistaken for other ethnicities when travelling abroad. “The Portuguese people love to claim me as one of their own, and I don’t [...]
North Korea may only have one political party, but that did not stop it from holding local elections, with 98 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot. “Polling stations are crowded with well-dressed voters eagerly waiting for their turns with many dancing to music of drums and gongs,” reported the official Korean Central News [...]
Hong Kong (BBCLATESTNEWS) – The South China Sea — a 1.3 million square mile patch of the Pacific Ocean bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations — is dotted with hundreds of largely uninhabited islands and coral atolls that are home to some of the world’s most diverse marine life. Also under its waves [...]
Beijing (BBCLATESTNEWS) — A high-speed bullet train collision in eastern China’s Zhejiang province late Saturday left 33 people dead and nearly 200 injured, state-run news agency Xinhua reported. Rescue operations continued Sunday. Witnesses told China National Radio that a bullet train stopped on the tracks because of a power outage from a lightning strike. Another [...]
According to BBC Latest News : Four youths who broke into the double-storey house of a minister’s political secretary in Bandar Tun Hussein Onn last Saturday night were nabbed eight hours after the robbery. In the 7.30pm incident, the political secretary and his family were at Bukit Jalil Stadium watching the Malaysia-Liverpool football match. However, [...]
President S R Nathan yesterday welcomed the presidential hopefuls aspiring to become the next elected head of state. Mr Nathan, who steps down next month, was asked by reporters about former senior civil servant Tan Jee Say’s entry on Friday into the presidential fray, and said: ‘He is an old colleague of mine. The more [...]
According to BBC Latest News:Actress Kim Cattrall is glad to leave behind her “sexual icon” tag, because she has always thought of herself as a ‘character actress stuck inside a leading lady’s body’. The 54-year-old actress, who is best known for sexually expressive characters in Sex and the City and Mannequin admitted she is happy [...]
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