MANILA: The Philippines' top judge, who walked out of an appearance at his own impeachment trial, was later rushed to hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack, his spokesman said Wednesday. Chief Justice Renato Corona checked into a hospital Tuesday night after his three-hour appearance before the Senate, during which he denounced the landmark corruption proceedings as a personal vendetta by President Benigno Aquino. "The diagnosis is possible heart attack," Corona's spokesman Midas Marquez said during several ...

SEOUL: North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday. Lee made the comment when he met a group of US lawmakers including Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said presidential spokeswoman Lee Miyon. "As to the North Korean issue, the human rights issue is no less important than nuclear tests or missile launches," the president was ...

TOKYO: The world's tallest tower, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday with tens of thousands of visitors flocking to the Japanese capital's newest attraction. Despite rainy weather, residents and tourists gathered around the 634-metre (2,080-foot) tower and its adjacent shopping and amusement complex which also opened on Tuesday. But those hoping for spectacular views from the observation deck 350 metres up were thwarted by the weather. "I have long been looking forward to coming here," ...