Tokyo: A Japanese funeral parlour is set to offer relatives the chance to pay their final respects to deceased loved ones without leaving...
Tokyo: A Japanese funeral parlour is set to offer relatives the chance to pay their final respects to deceased loved ones without leaving...
Seoul: North Korea vowed Wednesday to accelerate its weapons programmes in response to the "evil" sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council following...
Singapore: Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament, was declared elected as Singapore's first woman president on Wednesday, after the returning officer announced...
Manila: At least four people died and six were missing after a major storm caused flooding in and around Manila on Tuesday, forcing...
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Tuesday sacked a minister who had threatened to split his coalition government, three weeks after another was...
Beijing: China said Tuesday it backs the Myanmar government's efforts to "uphold peace and stability" in Rakhine state, where a military crackdown has...
GENEVA: A senior UN human rights official on Monday said Myanmar's security operation in Rakhine state "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing"....
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: The United Nations Security Council will hold an urgent meeting to discuss violence churning through western Myanmar, after the UN's...
YANGON: Pressure mounted on Myanmar on Tuesday to end violence that has sent more than 300,000 Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, with the United...
MANILA: Police have been forced to stop conducting drug surveys and testing in the Philippine capital's biggest and most populous area after a...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is set to welcome Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak to the White House on Tuesday, a meeting expected to...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said it would be counter-productive for the United States to sanction Pakistani officials or further cut...
BEIJING: China is facing heightened threats from foreign infiltration via religion and from the spread of extremism, a top official for religious affairs...
The top UN human rights official has denounced Myanmar's "brutal security operation" against Rohingya in Rakhine state, which he said was "clearly disproportionate"...
Astana, Kazakhstan: A former head of Kazakhstan's internal intelligence agency has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for "divulging state secrets", the supreme court...
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: The number of Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August 25 has reached 313,000,...
Yangon: Police fired rubber bullets to break up a mob which stoned the home of a Muslim butcher in central Myanmar, authorities said...
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Myanmar security forces have killed at least 3,000 Rohingya people in the latest violence against the Muslim minority in Myanmar's western...
