SHANGHAI: China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next year, hoping to build a “cultural Great Wall” that can…

BANGKOK: There were moments when Naruedee Jotsanthia thought she’d never smile again. The Thai schoolgirl says she was left facially…

SYDNEY: Staff at Australia’s Fairfax Media walked off the job for a week on Wednesday in protest at more hefty…

TOKYO: Japanese police have arrested a drunken American man over a punch-up with another passenger on an All Nippon Airways (ANA)…

STRASBOURG, FRANCE: The Council of Europe added its voice Tuesday to global concern over press freedom, saying that European public…

KIGALI: Around 20 of Africa’s endangered Eastern black rhinos are returning in an “extraordinary homecoming” to Rwanda after the species…

TOKYO: Japan’s American-written “peace constitution” has survived unchanged for 70 years, but nationalists seeking an overhaul are gearing up…

WASHINGTON: After dropping a monster bomb on its fighters, then targeting its leader, the US military is looking to…