Stealth Indonesia tsunami turns perfect night into nightmare
Dec 25, 2018
The tsunami that roared ashore in Indonesia hit with no warning and turned a seemingly perfect night into a nightmare
Alba the albino orangutan returned to jungle in Indonesia
Dec 21, 2018
The world's only known albino orangutan climbed trees, foraged for food and began building a nest after being released into a remote Borneo jungle more than a year after conservation officials found her starving and dehydrated in an Indonesian village
Aussie nun who angered Duterte forced to leave Philippines
Nov 3, 2018
An Australian nun who angered the Philippine president by joining anti-government protests has called on Filipinos to unite and fight human rights abuses ahead of her forced departure from the country
Indonesian airline whose plane crashed a low-cost high flyer
Oct 29, 2018
Indonesian airline whose plane crashed a low cost high flyer
Philippine island once called 'cesspool' reopens to tourists
Oct 26, 2018
Boatloads of tourists sailed Friday to Boracay island, which Philippine officials reopened to visitors after a six-month closure to clean waters the president had called a "cesspool" due to years of overcrowding, partying and neglect
China building boom uncovers buried dinosaurs, makes a star
Oct 25, 2018
China's rapid city building has churned up a motherlode of new dinosaur fossils, and no one has seized the scientific opportunity more than one paleontologist
Melting glacier in China draws tourists, climate worries
Oct 22, 2018
On the edge of the Third Pole, a retreating glacier draws tourists and worries over climate change
Brit, Canadian face 10 years in jail for spraying Thai wall
Oct 19, 2018
Police say a Briton and Canadian face up to 10 years in prison on charges of spraying paint on an ancient wall in northern Thailand
Former Chinese internment camp detainee denied US visa
Oct 19, 2018
An outspoken former detainee in China's internment camps for Muslims says his application for a visa to visit the United States was rejected despite an invitation to speak at Congress about his ordeal
Shanghai airport automates check-in with facial recognition
Oct 17, 2018
Shanghai's Hongqiao airport is using an automated flight check-in system powered by facial recognition technology, as China pushes to integrate biometrics into daily life
