Thailand Cave Rescue

  • Some of the boys rescued from the Tham Luang cave complex paying their respects to former navy Seal diver Saman Gunan, who lost his life during the rescue operation, at Mae Sai's Wat Pha That Doi Wao temple in Chiang Rai province yesterday.

Boys rescued from cave pray at temple after first night at home

Divers had a pretty chill life in Thailand. Then came the cave rescue mission

Thailand's cave boys to be discharged from hospital on Thursday, speak on video for the first time since rescue

Thai cave rescue: Stateless survivors to get help to become Thai citizens

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  • Mr Ridwan (centre) cycling in Bandung in 2014 during the launch of a campaign to promote commuting by bicycle. A 2012 photo of Mr Ridwan, an architect and recycling advocate, who used 30,000 Red Bull bottles in the design of his Bandung house. Mr Rid

Ridwan Kamil: Mayor, West Java governor... Indonesia's president in 2024?

In an interview with ST Foreign Editor Zakir Hussain, Mr Ridwan Kamil, 46, said he's very optimistic he can win the hearts of the majority who didn't vote for him. 
  • Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and his wife, Ms Kang Nan-He celebrate with his supporters after he was re-elected for a third term as mayor of the city on June 13. Mr Park has helmed the transformation of South Korea's highly-urbanised capital, which won

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  • Mr Bill Shorten, once strongly tipped to be Australia's next prime minister, may find himself ditched by his Labor Party ahead of the election.

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FEATURES

  • Employees of Korean Air and Asiana Airlines protesting outside the presidential Blue House in Seoul last Saturday. Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho is under probe for tax evasion and embezzlement, while Asiana Airlines employees have spoken out agains

South Korea's airlines in trouble amid chaebol reform

South Korea's two main airline conglomerates are in trouble, with both facing public outrage, employee protests, plunging share prices and accusations of mismanagement and misbehaviour by their owners' families.
  • Ms Sayako, who declined to give her full name, holding her baby during an interview in Tokyo. She had been trying to conceive a second child when her boss at a daycare centre told her to stop, saying she had missed her "turn", as prescribed on a "pre
  • Ms Sayako, who declined to give her full name, holding her baby during an interview in Tokyo. She had been trying to conceive a second child when her boss at a daycare centre told her to stop, saying she had missed her "turn", as prescribed on a "pre

The struggle of Japan's working mums

When Ms Yuka Ogata, 42, a lawmaker in the Kumamoto municipal assembly, brought her seven-month-old boy to a parliamentary sitting last November, her male colleagues kicked up such a fuss that proceedings were delayed by 40 minutes.
  • In Hong Kong, taxi drivers rent their vehicles from operators who have paid exorbitant sums for taxi licences. These licences, which can be bought or sold in the market freely, can each cost as much as HK$7 million (S$1.2 million), enough to buy a ti

Long road to better taxi service in Hong Kong

Hong Kong government has proposed a new demerit point system: Chalk up 15 points in a two-year period and a driver's licence will be suspended for three months. It is six months for repeat offenders.
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  • Malaysia's King, Sultan Muhammad V, handing the Chief Justice appointment letter to Tan Sri Richard Malanjum at Istana Negara last Wednesday.

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  • The "child" of the legendary Indonesian volcano Krakatau erupted on Thursday, spewing a plume of ash high into the sky as molten lava streamed down from its summit. Anak Krakatau - a small volcanic island that emerged from the ocean a half century af

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The "child" of the legendary Indonesian volcano Krakatau erupted on Thursday, spewing a plume of ash high into the sky as molten lava streamed down from its summit. 

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