TUBAN, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia has urged officials to stand up to mob pressure after Muslim and nationalist protesters called for a 30-metre-tall (100-ft-) statue of a Chinese deity erected in ...

Last week, a 98-foot-tall statue of the Chinese deity Guan Yu was covered with an enormous sheet in the Indonesian town of Tuban, in East Java. The statue, erected at a cost of 2.5 billion Indonesian ...

A 61-year-old woman in Taiwan took a statue of the deity Guiguzi from a temple and swapped it for an ancient Chinese scholar Lv Dongbin. The incident unfolded on September 11, when staff at Chenghuang ...

A Tiger God statue made of clay was stolen at a Chinese temple in Balestier on Saturday (Dec 6) shortly past midnight. Calling the theft “disrespectful to the deity”, Rochore Tua Pek Kong Temple on ...