Wang Nan hugged and thanked the four rescuers at the office of Thailand’s Pha Taem National Park, commending their swift response to the incident.
Hundreds of Pakistani women who crossed the frontier into Indian Kashmir decades ago with their ex-militant husbands now find themselves yearning for their homelands and families, but unable to leave.
A newspaper group’s publication of a translated version of ‘Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters’ has raised freedom of expression concerns on both sides of Japan’s political divide.
There is a growing trend among India’s Jains to undertake deeksha – in which they give up all possessions and relationships to beg for alms – at a young age.
Two stabbing incidents involving a man and a teenager have put Australia’s social tensions under the spotlight.
Those who know Wong say he is a ‘highly relatable political leader’, and laud him for being a team player, a quiet go-getter and a persistent doer.
At least dozens of political prisoners are still being held in Bhutan’s jails, according to human rights organisations.
Outrage over the attack has led to renewed calls for the passage of a long stalled anti-discrimination bill and other legal protections.
Malaysia’s disgraced ex-PM on Wednesday persisted with his claim that the country’s former king decreed he should be released from prison to serve the rest of his sentence from the comfort of his own home.
Opposition parties, and India’s long history of religious pluralism, both face an ‘existential crisis’ as Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP looks set to secure a third term in power.
As the government highlights cinema’s soft-power potential, observers say restrictions on state-funded projects are doing a disservice to young Indonesian filmmakers keen to make ‘intellectually challenging’ works.
Avitan is accused of weapons trafficking after he was arrested with six semi-automatic handguns in his Kuala Lumpur hotel room.
Truong My Lan, 67, was found guilty of embezzlement, bribery, and banking regulation violations for orchestrating a massive fraud using hundreds of ghost companies.
The man punched and kicked the store worker, resulting in multiple injuries, and also injured a shopper who attempted to intervene.
A Malaysian public that’s accustomed to politics shaping prosecutions largely sees PM Anwar Ibrahim following in the footsteps of his predecessors, while his allies walk free.
Ramil Albano, who had the Taragis Takoyaki logo tattooed on his forehead, agreed to do so in advance, brand boss Carlo Quion admitted.
A recent survey revealed significant underrepresentation – and lack of public awareness of the diaspora in politics and leadership roles – in a country where Indians form the second-largest migrant group.
Four arrests were made in connection to a website promising women opportunities to ‘earn tens of millions of yen a month’ in the US sex industry.
The Philippine government has been criticised for lacking a crisis response programme to help Palestinian refugees.
Boracay’s indigenous Ati people have been pushed to the margins and are fighting to retain agricultural land that developers claim is better used for tourism.
Their ancestors once called Singapore’s outlying islands home, but many in the Orang Laut community have since lost touch with their roots. A non-profit heritage group is seeking to change that.