Story Archive
2021-01-12
They were released on a technicality, national police chief says.
2021-01-12
The suspects belong to Xiaopen-Nanlu, a gang targeting expatriates from China in the Philippines.
2021-01-12
Opposition blasts move, saying it appears to have been done for prime minister’s political survival.
2021-01-11
The Southeast Asian nation plans to launch a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Jan. 13.
2021-01-11
President Rodrigo Duterte had said Christopher Cuan was on list of politicians with ties to drug traffickers.
2021-01-11
Muhyiddin Yassin imposes a two-week lockdown in six states to stem a surge in new infections.
2021-01-10
“We hope there will be a miracle, and he survived,” a cousin of a passenger on Sriwijaya Air flight 182, told BenarNews.
2021-01-09
A search is under way for the missing plane, Sriwijaya Air flight 182, in waters around the Thousand Islands off Jakarta.
2021-01-08
Calling for national elections amid surge in coronavirus cases is irresponsible, senior UMNO members say.
2021-01-08
The government has been too lenient on FPI, but an outright ban is problematic.
2021-01-08
“It’s still raw after all of these years later,” Australia’s prime minister says about the release of Abu Bakar Bashir.
2021-01-08
Pag-asa (Hope) would have turned 29 years old on Jan. 15.
2021-01-07
Four others have been charged for smuggling the Muslims, who are treated as illegal immigrants by Myanmar.
2021-01-07
The man arrested at a Texas airport in 2018 had smuggled 14 Bangladeshis across the U.S.-Mexico border.
2021-01-07
This could lead to a rise in infant and maternal mortality, health experts say.