Polling groups said Wednesday that Indonesian President Joko Widodo is ahead in the country’s presidential election.The so-called quick counts based on data collected at polling stations showed Widodo about 10 percentage points ahead of challenger Prab…
SAN FRANCISCO The chairman of the top U.S. telecoms regulator on Wednesday announced his opposition to allowing China Mobile to operate in the United States, citing risks to American national security.The statement from Federal Communications Commiss…
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have arrested a successful Uyghur property developer, according to a relative.Ilyas Memet, a 48-year-old father of five, was arrested at his office in Ili Kazakh (in Chinese, Yil…
HO CHI MINH CITY If a basic tenet of communism is equality, including based on gender, then from some points of view the Socialist Republic of Vietnam would seem to be faring well on its founding ideology.Women are visible everywhere across the count…
HO CHI MINH CITY If a basic tenet of communism is equality, including based on gender, then from some points of view the Socialist Republic of Vietnam would seem to be faring well on its founding ideology.Women are visible everywhere across the count…
A dog found swimming more than 220 kilometers (135 miles) from shore by workers on an oil rig crew in the Gulf of Thailand has been returned safely to land.A worker on the rig belonging to Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Vitisak Payalaw, s…
A dog found swimming more than 220 kilometers (135 miles) from shore by workers on an oil rig crew in the Gulf of Thailand has been returned safely to land.A worker on the rig belonging to Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Vitisak Payalaw, s…