An Indonesian tribe has a unique ritual of preserving dead ancestors and living with their bodies until the funeral, which could take years ...

Police in Indonesia were on Saturday hunting suspected militants accused of killing four people said by rights groups to be Christians, beheading one and burning down their homes.

Indonesia will block Israeli athletes from competing at the upcoming gymnastics world championships in Jakarta, a government ...

URUMQI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Each autumn, the streets of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region come alive with the sight of bright red pomegranates, long cherished as one of the local ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 33 studies on the association between diet and type 2 diabetes risk.

The rate of incident acute ischemic stroke was significantly higher among Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) individuals than among non-Hispanic White and Black individuals across four ...

Ongoing and systematic persecution of Afghanistan’s Hazara community meets the standard of genocide, according to a report published September 1 by the New Lines Institute (NLI). The report focuses on ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government designated the Karen National Union a terrorist organization Thursday, making illegal virtually any activities connected with the major ethnic rebel group, ...

One of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic groups pledged on Aug. 11 to block elections in areas it controls, rejecting polls the military junta has touted as a way of ending the nation's civil war. The ...

The Indonesian government has been exploring Bitcoin as a reserve asset, according to Bitcoin Indonesia, which recently met with officials to discuss how the strategy could drive economic growth in ...

A large new meta-analysis of more than 800,000 participants to be presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Vienna, Austria (15-19 ...

With Iran still reeling from its 12-day war, Israel retains a hidden weapon in its arsenal against the Islamic Republic—disaffected minorities who also seek to overthrow the government. Analysts and ...