Asia

MASSIVE floods in central China caused by record-breaking rainfall have left 12 dead and more than 100,000 people evacuated from their homes. More than a dozen cities in Henan province, …

HEAVY flooding has hit central China following unusually heavy rains, with the subway system in the city of Zhengzhou inundated with rushing water. Just to the north, the famed Shaolin …

Chang-ran Kim, Jack Kim PLANS to hold the first in-person summit between the leaders of Japan and South Korea have hit a snag over a disparaging comment by a Japanese …

SENIOR Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Thursday that China hoped the upcoming ASEAN summit on member Myanmar would pave the way for a “soft landing”. The in-person summit in …

THE terms of China’s loan deals with developing countries are unusually secretive and require borrowers to prioritise repayment of Chinese state-owned banks ahead of other creditors, a study of a …

POLICE in Myanmar have fired water cannon to disperse protesters who have taken to the streets despite a ban on large public gatherings. The military has prohibited gatherings of more …

THE former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co., Lai Xiaomin, was executed on Friday following his conviction on bribery charges by a court in Tianjin, the official People’s Daily …

THE de facto chief of South Korea’s Samsung business empire was convicted Monday over a huge corruption scandal and jailed for two and a half years, in a ruling that …

At least three people were killed and dozens injured when a powerful quake rippled through the Indonesian island of Sulawesi early Friday, toppling several buildings, including a hotel. THE 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck …

A DRONE taxi flew over Yeouido, Seoul, for the first time Wednesday morning as part of South Korea’s road map to realise the commercialisation of urban air mobility by 2025. …