Asia

Anand Sharma is one of the many software engineers from India who came to South Korea dreaming of big money and early rise in career but who are now desperate to return home. Sharma, a 32-year-old software engineer, belongs to ...

A 20-month-old boy in Indonesia has been addicted to cigarettes and smokes a half pack a day, a media report said. The toddler's father Deli Kusnadi was reported as saying Reno Ardiansyah has been smoking since he was 14 months ...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is engaging in a little window-shopping of China's new high-speed train lines while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy. His own state budget $19 billion in the red, Schwarzenegger says he is hoping ...

Officials say a small passenger plane carrying 14 people including foreigners crashed into the hills outside Nepal's capital in heavy rain on Tuesday. There is no word yet on the number of casualties. The area's police chief, Ram Bahadur Shrestha, ...

An angry ex-policeman hijacked a bus full of Hong Kong tourists in the Philippine capital, holding them for 12 hours, before a police raid that ended with eight hostages and the gunman dead. Local hospitals reported eight ...