Stories 1 - 10 for The Straits Times

NEW YORK - MAYOR Michael Bloomberg's narrower-than-expected reelection campaign cost the billionaire some US$102 million (S$142 million), or about US$183 ...

MANILA - POLICE have ended a grisly search for corpses and mass graves from an election-linked massacre in the southern Philippines, with the known death ...

TOKYO - JAPAN on Saturday launched a next-generation spy satellite as part of efforts to beef up its surveillance system against the threat of North Korea's ...

WASHINGTON - US FEDERAL Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday congressional proposals to audit the Fed and strip it of regulatory powers as part of ...

SEOUL - PRESIDENT Lee Myung-Bak on Saturday ordered a tough crackdown on an ongoing railway strike as cargo train services remained crippled across South ...

MILAN - A NEW panel of judges will formally open Premier Silvio Berlusconi's bribery trial on Dec 4, more than a year after it was frozen by a now-defunct ...

TAIPEI - THE cream of Asian cinema is set to gather in Taipei on Saturday for the Golden Horse Film Awards, considered the Chinese-language 'Oscars'. ...

KIEV (Ukraine) - UKRANIAN nationalists hurled red paint at a restored monument to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin moments after it was unveiled on Friday, ...