Two gold rings aged around 2,000 years old were discovered during an excavation at a new archaeological site in western Thailand, officials said.
Robotic elephants draw crowds and controversy in some of India’s Hindu temples
The life-size robotic elephants in Prasanth Prakashan’s backyard workshop have ears that flap, tails that swish and trunks that squirt water.
11-year-old driver crashes truck into Buddhist monks in Thailand, killing 10
An 11-year-old driver crashed a truck into Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand last Thursday, killing 10 of them and injuring others, officials said.
Another Philippine senator arrested for alleged large-scale corruption
A Philippine senator was arrested Monday and charged under the country’s anti-corruption statutes, becoming the latest member of the upper legislative chamber to be arrested in more than a month over suspicion of large-scale graft.
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori wins Peru’s presidential election in a runoff
Conservative politician Keiko Fujimori on Friday was declared the winner of the presidential runoff election in Peru, which was dominated by people’s concerns over surging crime.
Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release
A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump brought up his case when meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, his family and rights advocates said Saturday.
India seeking to recover the body of an Everest climber known as ‘Green Boots’
Indian authorities are seeking to recover the body of a climber known as “Green Boots” from the upper slopes of Mount Everest, nearly three decades after the mountaineer died on the world’s highest peak.
Pilot who hit Beijing’s tallest building wrote about ‘ending his life,’ Chinese authorities say
The pilot who flew a small plane into Beijing’s tallest building wrote in his diary about “ending his life,” Chinese authorities said Thursday.
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee, seized by Chinese authorities in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70
Lam Wing-kee, a former Hong Kong bookseller who became a symbol of resistance to Beijing’s crackdown on speech freedom after he was seized by Chinese authorities in late 2015, has died in Taiwan, the island’s official Central News Agency reported, citing an unnamed source.
Couple caned for kissing on TikTok in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province
A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned on Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream.