by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 20, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
US government prosecutors have asked South Korea to arrest a brother of former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon indicted in New York on charges of bribery, an official confirmed on Friday.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 20, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
Cho Yoon-Sun is accused of creating the vast catalogue to starve the artists of government subsidies and private investments and place them under state surveillance.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 18, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
Animal rights activists Wednesday demanded the closure of an Indonesian zoo after skeletal sun bears were pictured begging for food from visitors and eating their own dung.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 16, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
A Bangladesh court sentenced 26 people, including three senior officers from the country’s elite security force, to death Monday after convicting them of murdering seven people who were abducted outside a cricket stadium.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 14, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia
Zhou is commonly known as the “father of Pinyin”, a system for transliterating Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet introduced in the 1950s and now used by hundreds of millions of language learners in China, as well as abroad.
by Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News | Jan 14, 2017 | AFP Asia Pacific, Asia, Uncategorized
Families of the MH17 plane disaster victims may push for a renewed search of the crash site in eastern Ukraine after the recent discovery of a bone fragment belonging to one of the dead.