Three young British men were sentenced Tuesday to jail time and caning for sexually assaulting a Malaysian woman during a stag party in Singapore.Khong Tam Thanh, Le Michael and Vu Thai Son, in their 20s, were originally accused of rape but pleaded guilty on Monday to a lesser charge of aggravated outrage of modesty after a four-day trial.

Donald Trump’s bellicose rhetoric is going to end the rally in Asian assets, according to strategists at AllianceBernstein.It may not happen right away -- in fact, there’s a good chance Trump’s increasingly ominous war of words with North Korea will blow over by the end of the month -- but U.S.

The ASEAN region continues to remain an attractive tourist destination for both inter-regional and intra-regional (international) tourists as it welcomed a total of 108.9 million tourists in 2016. ASEAN is rich in its' culture, heritage sites, diverse landscapes and marine attractions. The region also possess a pleasant mixture of traditional and modern lifestyle and architecture.

More than 10,000 people turned out in Indonesia's Aceh on Sunday to stage a record-breaking song and dance performance stressing the need to conserve a threatened national park in the westernmost province.The men, clad in elaborate black and yellow traditional costumes, sat in neat rows, clapping their hands on their shoulders and laps and moving in an increasingly fast-paced rhythm to a traditional song.The saman, or "the dance of a thousand hands", is one of the country'

A faster pace of integration in realising the Asean Economic Community's (AEC) goal of creating a single production and market base will raise the region's growth potential.Sunway University Business School Professor of Economics Dr Yeah Kim Leng said the additional sources of growth will come from increased output and efficiency through greater economies of scale.Yeah said this includes higher productivity through market liberalisation, competition and technology transfer and full

Indonesia Specialty Coffee Exhibition (ISCE) invites crowds to Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The exhibition which started on Friday, August 11, 2017 is promoting coffee culture that is booming in both Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the variety of specialty coffee that originates from the archipelago nation.

China urged the United States and North Korea on Friday to be "cautious" with their words and actions after the two sides stepped up their bellicose rhetoric over Pyongyang's weapons programme.Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang called on both sides to avoid "going down the old path of alternately showing strength and continuously escalating the situation"."The current situation on the Korean Peninsula is highly complicated and sensitive.