Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA) will completely prohibit slaughtering live fowl in traditional markets all around the country starting June 17, the Central Epidemic Command Center for H7N9 influenza announced yesterday. The COA said
Filipino billionaire Lucio Tan’s LT Group Inc. LTG.PH +5.22% raised 37.72 billion Philippine pesos ($912.2 million) in the country’s largest ever equity sale, benefiting from a stock market that has boomed just weeks after the
The Lao government plans to build a massive 420km high-speed railway from the Chinese border to Vientiane, and a 220km high-speed railway linking Lao Bao on the Vietnamese border with Savannakhet on the Thai
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday vowed closer cooperation with visiting Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah and other regional leaders to find a peaceful solution to territorial conflicts in the South China
Public anger in North Korea appears to be deepening as the iron-fisted regime’s renewed nuclear brinkmanship has further isolated the country and aggravated its chronic food shortages, defectors and experts said. Given the regime’s
Despite the intense impact of the ballooning fuel subsidies on the economy, the Indonesian government has not yet offered a clear prescription on how to handle the politically sensitive issue. Discussions between President Susilo
Vietnam is one of 63 countries that will compete for a spot to travel to the edge of space in a programme sponsored by Unilever’s personal-care product line AXE. Vietnamese astronaut Pham Tuan, who
Barisan Nasional is fielding new faces for a third of the 222 parliamentary seats and almost half the 505 state constituencies in the general election in Malaysia. These fresh and “untested” candidates are part
A group of people writing the Myanmar constitution needs to be respected by the people and its writing is also required to have transparency, chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi of the National League for
What happens if a ballot box in an Election Commission (EC) boat gets swept away by strong currents in crocodile-infested waters? Will campaigning in a constituency continue if one of the candidates dies before