Hong Kong, September 10, 2011 – Pink Season, Hong Kong’s first ever and Asia’s biggest LGBT festival kicks off on 30 September. It is an unprecedented collaboration between local LGBT organizations and artists over a 2.5-month period. The Pink Season schedule covers the Electric Pink music party, the glamorous Mr. Gay Hong Kong pageant, Floatilla […]
Jakarta – Police in Indonesia shot dead three of seven dogs suspected to have eaten their owner who had left the animals for two weeks without food, local media reported Wednesday. A relative found dismembered parts of Andre Lumboga’s body in the kitchen of his house on Batam island on Tuesday when she visited after […]
Indian authorities say a terrorist attack outside the Indian high court in New Delhi killed at least nine people and injured 45 others. Police believe the explosive was placed inside a briefcase near a main gate to the high court in New Delhi. The blast is being described as a “medium-intensity bomb.” Injured were rapidly […]
Military crews are airlifting relief supplies to thousands of people in western Japan who have been cut off from the world since a powerful typhoon struck the region last week. Rains accompanying Typhoon Talas caused rivers to swell and triggered floods and landslides. The storm swept away roads and downed telephone and power lines, leaving […]
Singapore’s SMRT has filed its defence in the S$3.4million (Bt86 billion) lawsuit brought against the transport operator by the family of the Thai student whose legs were severed after she fell onto the Ang Mo Kio MRT Station tracks in April. The Today newspaper last Friday reported that the SMRT, in its writ, reiterated that […]
Wellington – A 31-year-old New Zealander choked and died eating an airline meal on a flight from Singapore to Auckland, a newspaper reported Sunday. His girlfriend, Vanessa Preechakul, 27, told the Herald on Sunday how she sat next to the body of Robert Rippingale after he was moved to a curtained off crew rest area […]
North Korea has opened its borders for goodwill gestures from South Korea and the United States. South Korean monks arrived in Pyongyang Saturday to help celebrate the creation of a religious relic important to Buddhists on both sides of the demilitarized zone. The 37 South Korean monks arrived by plane and were greeted at the […]
An accidental bomb explosion killed seven people, including two children aged 10 and 12, in a village in Burma’s western Arakan State on Sunday afternoon. Local witnesses said the bomb, which was believed to have been left behind from World War II, exploded when villagers in Thae Chaung village of Sittwe Township attempted to smash […]
