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 …