Typhoon Advancing Toward Tokyo Area on Holiday Weekend
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon is advancing toward the Tokyo area, where torrential rains are expected this weekend.
When a ‘Bloodless Correction’ Smells Like a Coup
WASHINGTON — No one likes to own up to a coup. It's usually nasty business and it can bring frowns and punishment from abroad (even when nations might be rooting for the coup leaders).
Indonesia Screens For Zika as Singapore Infections Mount
JAKARTA — Indonesia is screening travelers from neighboring Singapore for the mosquito-borne Zika virus as the city-state reports a growing number of infections and its first case of a pregnant woman testing positive.
Typhoon Lashes South Korea After Battering Japanese Islands
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A powerful typhoon damaged buildings, flooded roads and knocked out power to thousands of homes in South Korea on Monday after battering islands in southern Japan, killing one person and injuring dozens of others, before weakening as it passed North Korea.
Dimple-Piercing Fad Nothing to Smile About, Doctors Warn
BANGKOK — Those looking to punctuate their smiles with deeper dimples have two options. They can go to a licensed clinic and pay upward of 8,000 baht per cheek or pay someone at an underground clinic to push metal pins through both cheeks for about 900 baht.
The PM Orders Preparations For The Evacuation of Thais After Israel Was Attacked
At least 40 people were killed when Israel was attacked with weapons, and Thai citizens were injured and possibly kidnapped. The Prime Minister of...
Funky Building is Architecture, Not ‘Crooked’ and Collapsing: Officials
BANGKOK — Worries that a building being built downtown was at risk of collapsing were laid to rest Tuesday by local officials who explained it was just designed to look that way.
Rocker Sek Loso Found Guilty, Gets Long Prison Sentence
BANGKOK — A poster boy for bad boy rock stars who is said to be struggling from mental illness was sentenced to almost four...
Survivors Recall Escape, Ponder Future After Europe’s Floods
PEPINSTER, Belgium (AP) — Paul and Madeline Brasseur were at home with their two sons in the Belgian town of Pepinster when the water “came all of a sudden” late in the evening.
Red Bull Heir’s Latest Deadline to Appear Expires Today
BANGKOK — Thursday marks the day the millionaire heir to an energy drink empire wanted for a fatal car accident five years ago must turn himself to the authorities.
