KABUL, Afghanistan: At least eight people were killed in a Taliban suicide attack in southern Helmand province on Monday, police said. The noon...
KABUL, Afghanistan: At least eight people were killed in a Taliban suicide attack in southern Helmand province on Monday, police said. The noon...
BANGKOK: A wealthy Thai Buddhist temple that foiled two massive police operations last year has denied resisting a legal process against its honorary...
CHENNAI, India: A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern...
MUMBAI: Women’s groups in India are planning nationwide rallies on Jan. 21 to protest the alleged mass molestation in the city of Bengaluru...
Colombo: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday overturned a 26-year-old decree that required top bureaucrats to wear a suit and tie, saying...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: In early December, representatives from Cambodia’s opposition party had said they were close to securing the release of four human...
Yangon: At least 65,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar -- a third of them over the past week -- since the...
YANGON, Myanmar: A United Nations human rights envoy is visiting Myanmar amid growing international concern over allegations against the military, including reports of...
SEOUL: South Korea warned its northern neighbor Monday it will only face more sanctions if it tests an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as...
YANGON, Myanmar: Five villagers have been killed by rampaging elephants in a village in Myanmar’s mountainous Shan State, authorities said Monday. A herd...
BANGKOK: The death toll from massive flooding in Thailand has risen to 21 with authorities expecting the situation to worsen in southern provinces. ...
YANGON, Myanmar: Seven rebels were killed as soldiers took over four more outposts from a powerful ethnic Kachin rebel group in an area...
SEOUL: Japan’s most senior South Korea-based envoys returned home Monday, fulfilling Tokyo’s protest against the recent erection in Busan of a “comfort women”...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: At least four police personnel were killed and five others wounded in an explosion near a mosque in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan...
YANGON, Myanmar: Security personnel were deployed to guard a Muslim ceremony in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon on Sunday after a group of Buddhist...
SRINAGAR, India: Several unidentified militants attacked a camp housing road construction workers in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, killing...
Faisalabad, Pakistan: As Pakistan slowly emerges from a long-term power crisis, its once booming textile sector is scrambling to find its feet --...
New Delhi: India's rights watchdog said more than a dozen tribal women were raped and sexually assaulted by police in restive Chhattisgarh state,...
