Advertisement
Advertisement
SCMP’s Asia desk

The remarks came after some lawmakers expressed alarm over the some 4,000 non-local students in the province that also houses military bases accessed by US troops.

videocam

The patient had waited five hours for a hospital in South Gyeongsang province that could perform heart surgery, and six facilities had turned down calls from first responders amid a doctors’ strike.

Advertisement

The Democratic Party’s Kim Jun-hyeok claims Ewha Womans University’s first president helped send ‘comfort women’ to Japan and forced students to provide sexual favours to US soldiers.

The ophthalmologist at Pusan National University Hospital had complained of fatigue after taking on more duties following last month’s strike by junior doctors.

A 2017 government report showing more than half of South Korean men had paid for sex at least once in their lives, despite the nation’s anti-prostitution law.

videocam

CCTV footage showed the teen, 19, inserting his hand and arm into the vulvas of the horses on multiple instances during his visits to the stable in Thalang district.

Lars, who finished sixth in last year’s Miss International Queen pageant, denounced the Filipinos and hoped the fracas would not affect bilateral ties.

Justice chief Jesus Crispin Remulla has urged prosecutors to file an ‘airtight’ case against the three suspects, who face multiple charges including kidnapping and homicide.

The ‘aggression’ the Philippines faces from China in the disputed sea is unprecedented, says the country’s ambassador to the US, Jose Manuel Romualdez.

videocam

Thai transgender activist Jakapong Jakrajutatip has blamed an unnamed person for the ‘unlawful act’, saying the edited clip was used to tarnish her reputation.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr says the legal action will proceed if Chinese boats were proven to ‘intentionally destroy’ the Scarborough Shoal.

videocam

While the Catholic leaders stood with the Philippines’ fishing folk, they stressed that armed conflict over the hotly-contested sea was not a “moral option”.

Indonesian engineers are under investigation for allegedly trying to remove a USB device containing information on the South Korean-made KF-21 fighter jet.

videocam

Arturo Lascanas said Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio, as Davao mayor in 2012, instructed law enforcement to abduct and bury drug suspects to portray them as kidnapping.

The British Asian Trust, started in 2007 to fight poverty in South Asia, has denounced renowned Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s actions and “ceased any association” with him.

videocam