World / Asia

Singapore: Two hundred firefighters battled a blaze at a Singapore waste management plant which triggered a series of explosions and sent a plume...

Bangkok: Thai police filed two new arrest warrants against an influential former abbot of Thailand's biggest Buddhist temple yesterday after a week-long standoff...

Bangkok: Thailand's Supreme Court yesterday reduced the sentence of a prominent former magazine editor who had been jailed for 10 years for insulting...

Manila: The Philippines' top diplomat said yesterday any move by China to transform a Manila-claimed shoal into an island would be a "game-changer"...

Kabul: A government official says Afghanistan is ready to seek United Nations sanctions against suspected terrorist networks and their supporters, a veiled reference...

Beijing: China's defence ministry said yesterday it was aware of the presence of a US aircraft carrier strike group in the South China...

Bangkok: Activists are urging Unilever, a major investor in Myanmar, to speak out against the country's treatment of its Rohingya minority, which the...

New Delhi: The central government yesterday did away with security requirement of stamping hand baggage tags at the time of boarding the aircraft...

MUMBAI: Shiny Varghese Padiyara knew she faced a race against time when a woman rescued from a brothel was brought to her shelter...

Yangon: The head of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic rebel group has warned that fighting in the country's restive borderlands has reached a critical...

Yangon: Some 350 farmers from Myanmar's Mandalay region are facing court cases related to land-grabbing, most of them brought since Aung San Suu...

Lahore, Pakistan: At least eight people were killed and 28 injured after a bomb ripped through Pakistan's Lahore Thursday, officials said, the tenth...

New Delhi: Three soldiers and a woman were killed when militants ambushed an army patrol in Shopian area of south India's Kashmir, police...

MANILA: The Philippine foreign minister on Thursday said he would tell a United Nations rights body that the killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's...

Kabul: At least eighteen loyalists of the (ISIS) group were killed during the ongoing clearance operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The...

Lahore, Pakistan: At least five people were killed and 15 injured after a bomb ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area...

Jakarta: The four richest Indonesians are wealthier than the poorest 100 million people in the country, a study has found, highlighting how huge...

SHOPIAN, India: Three Indian soldiers and a woman were killed when militants ambushed a patrol in South Kashmir early on Thursday, part of...