Japan is reviewing the death penalty and Singapore’s frequent use of capital punishment is under the spotlight, but Asia remains a bastion of support for executions despite outrage from rights …

SINGAPORE : A SilkAir flight attendant who hurt an Indonesian maid was jailed for two months on Thursday. 28-year-old Siti Farhana Mhd Yahkup and her husband, Mohammed Szami At’tirmidzi Supa’at, …

International brands are cashing in on Expo 2010 Shanghai by launching new limited edition products and developing their customer bases in the city, as well as across China. Shiseido, a …

Google Inc said on Monday it has cut commercial ties with two of its Chinese advertising agents, raising concerns that the Internet giant’s recent standoff with the government may scare …

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the US will affect the transparency in business dealings of foreign oil, gas and mining companies operating in Indonesia. “The …

The parents of a young woman who allegedly died due to poor living conditions at a labour recruitment firm in Phnom Penh said yesterday that they would not pursue a …

Rolls-Royce aims to grow its supply chain tremendously in Southeast Asia, with Thailand, where it has been doing business for 21 years, as a focus.“We are going to be making …

Kittiwat Unarrom has studied fine arts and mastered paintings, sculptures and other media. But it wasn’t until he went back to his roots that the 32-year-old finally found fame and …

Sixteen people have been injured in a devastating lift accident at the Welcome Jomtien Hotel in Pattaya on Saturday. The group had entered the lift at the 18th floor before …

In spite of the sharp declines in arrivals during the political crisis months of May and June 2010, international visitor arrivals in the first four months of this year were …

A 50-year-old Stockholm couple has won a 79.5 million kronor jackpot from Lotto, Svenska Spel (Swedish Games) announced on Friday. Since Wednesday, the agency has been busy tracking down the …

New laws concerning the use of red plates (dealer plates) have just been issued. Red plates can now only be fitted to a car for 3,000km or 1 Month (whichever …

H&M, Tesco, and Primark have been lambasted after an investigation by the UK’s Daily Mail claimed that factories contracted by the high-street retailers were exploiting its workers in sweatshop conditions. …

On a muggy evening, a handful of men in suits were quickly getting drunk in a beer garden here in the Cambodian capital. One man rested his hand on the …

The Swedish Accident Investigation Board will investigate an incident when two passenger jets nearly collided with each other over Östersund in central Sweden earlier this month.The flight paths crossed each …

Several dive sites at two of the Malaysian top diving destinations in the world are temporarily off-limits to divers and snorkelers until end-October. Malaysian newspaper The Star writes this. Three …

A Stewardess from Air France Airline has been arrested after robbing unsuspecting business class passengers of their money and valuables on over 100 long-haul flights. The passengers were robbed as …

A survey of 16 countries showed that the estimated value of the international publicity surrounding the wedding between Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel was SEK 2.7 billion (EUR …

The Malaysian woman Wook Kundor and her 23rd husband Mohd Noor Che Musa from Kuala Terengganu in Northern Malaysia, were reunited on Thursday, and are now looking towards a blissful …

Bangkok Post writes that according to Deputy Government Spokesman Supachai Jaisamut, the cabinet agreed today to lift the state of emergency in three more provinces.The three provinces are Lampang in …

US Army Special Forces commander Col. William Coultrup, who headed American troops temporarily stationed in Mindanao, heads back home soon after a three-year tour of duty in Southern Philippines where …

A Malaysian court sentenced a man to death for murdering his Indonesian maid in a landmark verdict hailed by Indonesian diplomats Tuesday as a warning that the abuse of foreign …

Cambodian police and social workers have beat, extorted and raped sex workers after taking them into their custody, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, adding foreign governments could do more …

Cambodias national airline, Cambodia Angkor Air is set to buy two new planes in order to expand its flight network to South Korea, China and Japan. The carrier, set up last …

Chinese government sources have reported to the news agency Xinhua that the accident happened on Saturday near Hanchen city in the Shaanxi province. Although Xinhua does not mention anything about …

Trade unions and labour groups in Bangladesh continue their call upon international buyers to ensure the compensation meets the needs of  the families of the workers who died in a …

The small Danish mobile telecommunications company Vopium has brought home DKK 100 million from an Indian investor, who in turn gets the control of the company. Vopium, an innovative mobile …

A New Zealand man is recovering from surgery after being shot in the buttock by his dog. A New Zealand man is recovering from surgery after being shot in the buttock …

The rise in the number of women being infected with HIV is an indication that the disease has gone beyond affecting just drug users and sex workers. “HIV infection among …

For much of the past year, residents of a village in Vietnam’s southern Ca Mau province heard a child screaming in terror in a nearby house, but no one alerted …

The award-winning and world famous young 36-year-old Danish architect Bjarke Ingels can now boast of being among the world’s 100 most creative business people in 2010 – More precisely, he …

The high-profile case of an accused Australian paedophile in India and the recent arrest of an Australian man on child sex charges in Thailand represent just the ”tip of the …

Pay the elephant handler 20 baht and you can feed a bunch of bananas or a piece of sugar cane to a real life elephant. An easy way for handlers …

When the rains come and the rivers swell, giant bones tend to wash up in this remote rice-farming corner of Thailand. Giant tyrannosaur footprints were found in Baan Na Kum. …

Effective aviation safety standards in Europe have rendered EU safety record amongst the best in the world. Whilst the European Union and its Member States are working with safety authorities …

Danfoss group of Denmark, which 12 years ago set up its subsidiary in Chennai, is upbeat on the market opening up for its core products like power electronics ( high …

Switzerland’s president did not plead for leniency for a Swiss train vandal during a visit to Singapore, and said there was no “big debate” over the issue, reports said Saturday. …

Finland-based mobile software firm Qvantel Oy, which has Ericsson, Nokia Siemens and TeliaSonera among its clients, is setting up a centre of excellence in Bangalore to provide software product engineering …

Many summer holiday travellers flying out of Copenhagen Airport forget their passports at home. Therefore, the Copenhagen Airport Police is exceptionally busy these days, says Deputy Chief Superintendent Kaj Lykke …

A poor mother of newborn twin girls has been forced to sell one of the children to a staff member from the state-owned Indonesian hospital in which they were born …

What can a Big Mac tell us about the price of tea in China? A lot, it turns out. For 24 years, The Economist magazine has measured the value of …

Plucking out little cultural differences and critiquing them to death is the part-time hobby of almost any expat anywhere in the world and US exile Doug Lansky shows that he …

“We have received information that there are people who continue to spread out false information in order to promote hatred and induce unrest,” a spokesperson to Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit …

Indonesian Police have laid charges against eight people accused of uploading the Peterporn sex tapes on the Internet. Comr. Gen. Ito Sumardi, National Police chief of detectives, said the suspects …

Yogyakarta. Indonesia’s second-largest Islamic organization has given its endorsement to female motorcycle taxi drivers during its ongoing national congress in Yogyakarta, rebuffing a fatwa issued by East Java clerics in …

Following a CNN report in late June that claimed US McDonald’s chicken nuggets contain traces of two “harmful” chemicals, the fast food giant’s China division admitted on Monday that its …