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Google’s Street View offers a rare peek into Bhutan PUBLISHED : Thursday, 23 October, 2014, 9:50pm UPDATED : Friday, 24 October, 2014, 3:14am Agence France-Presse in Bhutan An image of downtown Thimphu in Bhutan is shown as part of the Google Street View project. Photo: AFP Google provided...

China scraps 130,000 ‘leading groups’ in effort to streamline local government PUBLISHED : Thursday, 23 October, 2014, 2:36pm UPDATED : Thursday, 23 October, 2014, 4:31pm Chris Luo [email protected] The nationwide order is part of President Xi Jinping’s “mass line education and...

Ting Hsin food firm boss charged over tainted cooking oil PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 21 October, 2014, 2:21pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 22 October, 2014, 3:21am Kyodo in Taipei Wei Ying-chun is escorted by police at the Changhua district court in central Taiwan. Photo: AFP The head of a lard supplier...

Hong Kong protests put huge dent in Asia luxury goods sales Top brands also hurt by mainland slowdown and anti-corruption drive PUBLISHED : Monday, 20 October, 2014, 5:05am UPDATED : Monday, 20 October, 2014, 6:42pm Agence France-Presse A woman walks past a closed shop when streets were...

Hopes that seized girls will be freed as Nigeria claims deal with Boko Haram Announcement raises hopes Boko Haram will release 200 kidnapped girls, though analysts cast doubt on credibility of breakthrough PUBLISHED : Saturday, 18 October, 2014, 3:46am UPDATED : Saturday, 18 October, 2014...

HBO plans streaming service for viewers without cable or satellite New service will be available to viewers without cable or satellite subscriptions, putting it in competition with Netflix, Amazon and Hulu PUBLISHED : Thursday, 16 October, 2014, 9:33pm UPDATED : Friday, 17 October, 2014...

Police launch probe after alleged beating of Civic Party’s Ken Tsang caught on camera Television footage appears to show several officers striking man laying on ground PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 15 October, 2014, 12:46pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 15 October, 2014, 8:51pm Staff reporters Ken Tsang...

Pregnant police officer among eight killed in Xinjiang stabbing spree: reports PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 14 October, 2014, 2:04pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 14 October, 2014, 4:48pm Patrick Boehler [email protected] A Uygur man looks on as a truck carrying paramilitary policemen travels along a...

Beijing police nab 30,000 suspects in cyber crime crackdown Xinhua, October 9, 2014 Police in Beijing have nabbed some 30,000 suspects involved in cyber crimes in an online crackdown that began in 2011, according to the latest statistics. According to Beijing's public security bureau, about...

Death toll expected to mount in Yunnan earthquake Five people are reported dead and more than 300 injured, but officials expect the numbers to rise after a 6.6-magnitude quake on Tuesday night hit in Jinggu and surrounding counties PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 08 October, 2014, 11:40am UPDATED ...

South Koreans boycott Kakao Talk social media service after president's rumour complaints Users switch from leading Kakao Talk to rival after president complains of cyberspace insults PUBLISHED : Monday, 06 October, 2014, 4:28am UPDATED : Monday, 06 October, 2014, 4:28am Associated Press in...

French court jails 'charmer' and 'seducer' for knowingly spreading HIV PUBLISHED : Friday, 03 October, 2014, 10:08pm UPDATED : Friday, 03 October, 2014, 10:08pm Agence France-Presse in Paris French defendant Christophe Morat leaves the Appeals Court in Colmar after the court confirmed his...

China watches Hong Kong protests, fearful of contagion AFP September 30, 2014, 9:42 pm Hong Kong (AFP) - China's refusal to allow free elections in Hong Kong risks an open-ended confrontation that will test how far Beijing will go to stop the city's pro-democracy fever from infecting the...

Inventor of World Wide Web warns of control threat to internet PUBLISHED : Monday, 29 September, 2014, 3:23am UPDATED : Monday, 29 September, 2014, 3:23am Agence France-Presse in London Tim Berners-Lee called for a bill of rights that would guarantee the independence of the internet and...

Chinese restaurant owner laced noodles with poppy to get customers addicted Unwitting diner also detained after testing positive on drug test PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 23 September, 2014, 3:09pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 23 September, 2014, 4:57pm Wu Nan [email protected] A Chinese man eats noodles at a...

British journalist John Cantlie purportedly shown in IS video Date September 19, 2014 - 1:09AM An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State group through Al-Furqan Media via YouTube allegedly shows British freelance photojournalist, John Cantlie, at an undisclosed...

American held in South Korea after trying to swim across Han River to rival North Man in his 30s told investigators he wanted to meet leader Kim Jong-un PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 17 September, 2014, 11:04pm UPDATED : Thursday, 18 September, 2014, 2:02am Agence France-Presse in Seoul Han river...

Cabinet to evaluate tainted oil scandal Fate of health and welfare minister also at stake: reports Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2014-09-16 04:56 PM TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Cabinet is to spend the next two days evaluating the necessary measures to counter the tainted lard oil scandal...

New curbs on trade in threatened sharks come into force Tightened regulations covering the trade in shark and ray products come into force on Sunday with exporting countries facing sanctions if they fail to ensure sustainability PUBLISHED : Friday, 12 September, 2014, 11:00am UPDATED : Friday...

Rethink urged as Singapore bans documentary about political exiles Censors' decision on documentary about people who fled the nation from the 1960s to the 1980s draws calls from artists and activists for U-turn PUBLISHED : Friday, 12 September, 2014, 4:07am UPDATED : Friday, 12 September...