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SINGAPORE: On November 1, a new ministry will be setting the tone and direction for Singapore's society. The Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY), is borne out of the current Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and will be helmed by Mr Lawrence Wong, who is...

SINGAPORE: An executive maisonette in Hougang has been sold with a record Cash-Over-Valuation (COV) of S$225,000, about five times the average COV paid for such properties. COV is the cash premium buyers pay for a resale HDB flat. The flat is located at Block 237, Hougang Street 21...

BANGKOK: A Canadian and an Australian tourist have been found dead in a Bangkok hotel after a suspected drug overdose, Thai tourist police said Friday. A maid found the bodies of the two men, who are believed to be aged 31 and 27-years-old respectively, slumped in a room in the Park Plaza, a...

NEW DELHI: World champion Sebastian Vettel topped the times in opening free practice on Friday for the Indian Grand Prix, underlining his standing as the man to beat this weekend. The 25-year-old German steered his Red Bull to a fastest lap of one minute 27.619 seconds in the 90-minute...

BEIJING: China's Foreign Ministry hit out at a New York Times report on Friday which claimed that Premier Wen Jiabao's family had amassed massive wealth during his term in office. "Some reports smear China and have ulterior motives," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in response to a...

SINGAPORE: Sixteen mosques in Singapore are going through two days of audit - starting on Friday - to get approval for sheep slaughter practices during the Islamic Korban ritual. This will pave the way for them to meet new stringent regulations to secure livestock, which typically comes from...

SITTWE, Myanmar: At least 112 people have been killed and thousands of homes torched in communal violence in western Myanmar, casting a shadow over the reformist government's attempts to remake the country's international image. People have fled their homes in droves following the latest...

SINGAPORE: About 10,500 passengers were affected by the Circle Line (CCL) disruption which was caused by a faulty power cable on Thursday night. Speaking at a media conference on Friday morning, SMRT's CEO Desmond Kuek said the issue of faulty power cables is not new. A similar disruption...

SINGAPORE: Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin said there will be no U-turn on the tightening of foreign worker inflow into Singapore. He hinted that foreign workers in the S Pass category may face further tightening measures as early as the first quarter of 2013. S Pass holders are...

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/components/display_image.php?id=511505 HONG KONG: Hong Kong's de facto central bank said Wednesday it expects more capital inflows into the city after its fourth intervention in the forex market in a week to curb the local dollar's strength. The Hong Kong...

UNITED NATIONS - Nearly five million people have been affected by the flooding in southern Pakistan, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters Tuesday, citing estimates from the Pakistani government. "UN agencies and non-governmental organizations are delivering assistance in support of...

BAGHDAD - Up to eight people were killed and 15 wounded in a series of bomb attacks in northern and western Baghdad of Iraq on Tuesday morning, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The deadliest attack occurred when several mortar rounds landed in a residential area of Chikouk in...

DAMASCUS - The UN-Arab League joint special representative Lakhdar Brahimi left Syria on Tuesday, after finishing his four-day visit aiming to garner support for his proposal for a cease-fire during the upcoming holiday of Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha. "We hope that the Eid in Syria would be...

WASHINGTON - US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey and his the Republic of Korea's counterpart Jung Seung-jo on Tuesday conducted the United States-Republic of Korea Military Committee Meeting, and reaffirmed the commitment to the alliance. According to a joint communique...

Tourism between China and Japan remains stagnant because of the political standoff over the Diaoyu Islands dispute, though about 2,200 tourists visited the island nation on a cruise ship and returned to Shanghai on Tuesday. Those 2,200 tourists, who departed from Shanghai on Thursday, formed...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney embarked on a swirl-wind campaign tour Tuesday following the conclusion of three presidential debates, as election enters its last stretch. The most intense campaigning will be done by Obama. He...

BERLIN, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday published an open letter by the Chinese embassy that tells the truth to the German pubic on the Diaoyu Islands dispute and urges Japan to stop all acts that infringe Chinese sovereignty and return to the track...

GENEVA, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- China exceeded the United States to become the world's largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first six months of 2012, a report released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) showed on Tuesday. It's mainly due to a...

BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Three rating agencies from China, the United States and Russia will jointly launch a new credit rating company to rival current industry leaders and promote independence. It was announced on Wednesday that the Universal Credit Rating Group will be established by...

The Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin blasts off from its launch pad 31 at the Baikonur cosmodrome October 23, 2012