YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s first major infrastructure project could hardly be more visible - hundreds of new yellow buses now plying the...
YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s first major infrastructure project could hardly be more visible - hundreds of new yellow buses now plying the...
TOKYO: A weakening Typhoon Noru made landfall in central Japan on Monday, pounding some regions with more than a month’s worth of rain,...
NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of flood survivors in India’s remote northeast are at risk of contracting diseases such as malaria and Japanese...
MUMBAI: An indigenous man who lived in a tree house for two years after his home was damaged in a south Indian forest,...
Manila: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged North Korea on Sunday to make a "smart decision", after the United Nations imposed tough new...
TOKYO: Dozens of firefighters battled a major blaze on Thursday at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fishmarket, the world’s largest and one of the capital’s most...
Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday defended a police raid that killed a mayor whom he had linked to narcotics trafficking along...
New Delhi: A day after the government faced embarrassment in Parliament over a bill on the Backward Classes Commission, the BJP on Tuesday...
Hyderabad: One of India's top scientists and founder-director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Pushpa Mitra Bhargava died on Tuesday...
Antananarivo: At least 34 people died when a bus carrying young Christian worshippers plunged down a steep ravine in central Madagascar, police and...
Pakistani lawmakers chose Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the interim prime minister to replace deposed leader Nawaz Sharif, settling political uncertainty caused by a...
Srinagar, India: Indian forces killed a top militant commander in Kashmir on Tuesday, triggering clashes in which one protester was killed and dozens...
New Delhi: Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in India as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat,...
KABUL: Militant group Islamic State on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul that began with a suicide...
KABUL, Afghanistan: A car bombing targeted the Iraqi Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, followed by gunfire, Afghan police officials said. There were...
COLOMBO: Eight years after the end of a bloody civil conflict, Sri Lanka is on a war footing once again. This time all...
Sydney: Australia has foiled a "terrorist plot" to bring down an airplane with an improvised explosive, authorities said Sunday, after four people were...
NAGAPATTINAM, India: T he worst drought in more than a century in southern India has led to protests, farmer suicides, and clashes at...
