Manila: Islamist militants in the Philippines allied with Islamic State freed yesterday a South Korean cargo ship captain and a Filipino member of...
Myanmar: A powerful ethnic party in Myanmar has again rejected a request for a meeting from a top United Nations official who is...
NEW DELHI: Counterterrorism police in Bangladesh have arrested another suspected mastermind of a July attack on a restaurant in the capital, officials said....
China’s foreign ministry said its One-China policy isn’t negotiable and urged Donald Trump to recognize the “high sensitivity” with which it views Taiwan,...
TUBAN, Indonesia: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck off Indonesia’s Maluku Islands on Saturday. The United State Geological Survey reported...
Bangkok: A Thai military air show for children was marred by tragedy yesterday when a fighter jet plunged from the sky and burst...
Tokyo: High levels of toxic chemicals were found in groundwater tests at a new facility scheduled to replace Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market --...
Sydney: A Japanese man has been rescued after spending a night drifting on his surfboard miles off the east coast of Australia, a...
Islamabad: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has asked Pakistan to investigate the fatal shooting of a local journalist n the country's...
Islamabad: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has warned of ill-timed rains in the country in future due to climate change, saying they will...
Islamabad: US defence secretary-designate James Mattis has said that the Trump administration would offer incentives to Pakistan to cooperate with the United States...
Islamabad: Citing the Political Parties Order 2002 and relevant rules, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) called on all those political parties whose...
Beijing: China's sole aircraft carrier has returned home following a far-ranging three-week training mission during which its combat capabilities were closely scrutinised and...
BEIJING: Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China's Pinyin Romanization system, died yesterday at the age of 111. Born in...
Suva, Fiji: A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no...
Beijing: Beijing’s air quality target for 2017 is more than double the acceptable standard set by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the mayor...
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy yesterday failed to turn up for a crucial political affairs committee (PAC) meeting of the Congress party...
