BANGKOK: Bangkok’s famous street-food vendors have joined the digital revolution, embracing payment via Quick Response (QR) barcodes that can…

BEIJING: Chinese police have launched an investigation into alleged child abuse at a Beijing pre-school after parents found apparent…

SYDNEY: Papua New Guinea police have emptied a shuttered Australian detention camp where hundreds of refugees were holed up…

MEXICO CITY: A Mexican once certified as the heaviest man in the world is recovering from a second stomach-reduction…

PARIS: A man doomed to die after suffering burns across 95 percent of his body was saved by skin…

Fears grow of situation turning violent as some asylum seekers go into hiding, refusing to leave SYDNEY: Papua New Guinea…

JAKARTA: An Indonesian man who used his bare hands to kill a snake that was discovered slithering on a busy…

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s incoming president Emmerson Mnangagwa was preparing yesterday to take power after the shock resignation of Robert Mugabe brought…