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Former Straits Times deputy editor Felix Soh who died of pneumonia at home on May 3. He was 63. The veteran newspaperman, who retired last November, had also …

Looking in from the outside, it is difficult to pinpoint how exactly Nepal can recover from this most recent catastrophic earthquake. The area within the Ring …

NEW DELHI ― Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Payali knew she was doing wrong when she scribbled mnemonics on her hands before entering one of India’s thousands …

BUHOVO, Bulgaria ― She is a chemical engineer and he a painter turned security guard ― the Koleshevs are the hidden face of the “working poor” in …

TOKYO ― Japan is set to take a baby step towards rebalancing the age scales when lawmakers lower the voting age to 18 from its current 20, allowing teenagers …

Police found two more camps Tuesday believed to have held human trafficking victims in southern Thailand — one recently abandoned and the other …

A former Japanese foreign minister said Monday he does not believe Prime Minister Abe spoke “in the same tenor as” Japan’s 1993 statement of …

South Korea’s chief nuclear envoy met with his U.S. counterpart Monday for talks expected to focus on discussing how to restart long-stalled negotiations …

LONDON ― The birth of a princess on Saturday demonstrated the enduring strength of Britain’s rulers, consolidating four generations of a family now more …

A South Korean freighter registered with Britain caught fire off northeast Egypt Saturday, destroying more than 50 containers without any human casualties, the …