Jakarta: Indonesia said it had accepted an Australian apology after teaching materials deemed offensive to Jakarta led to a partial suspension of ties,...
Jakarta: Indonesia said it had accepted an Australian apology after teaching materials deemed offensive to Jakarta led to a partial suspension of ties,...
Kathmandu: Nepal yesterday extended the mandates for two commissions tasked with probing crimes committed during the bloody civil war, hours before a deadline...
Beijing: China is to begin taking fingerprints of all foreign visitors as it steps up security on its borders, the Ministry of Public...
Beijing: Chinese police have rescued 32 Vietnamese women who were sold as brides to Chinese farmers, authorities said yesterday, in an operation aimed...
Cagayan de Oro: Communist guerrillas abducted three villagers, including a policeman, and burned construction equipment in new attacks in the Philippines yesterday and...
Manila: The Philippines' environment minister vowed not to buckle to mounting pressure yesterday from a mining sector reeling from her shutting more than...
Washington: The commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan said yestreday that the coalition had a shortfall of a "few thousands" of...
Seoul: Hundreds of South Korean artists filed a lawsuit against impeached President Park Geun-hye and two officials yesterday over a state "blacklist" of...
New Delhi: India submitted an extradition request yesterday to Britain to send back the flamboyant tycoon Vijay Mallya to face trial after he...
Karachi: India has built a “secret nuclear city”, Pakistan claimed yesterday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria made the claim during a weekly media...
Kuala Lumpur: The bodies of six passengers believed to be from a boat which capsized in rough seas off Malaysia have been found,...
Tokyo: Japan accepted just 28 refugees last year when a record number applied for asylum, a government document dated for releasetoday showed, throwing...
Bangkok: Thailand's military-led reconciliation talks, aimed at mending the country's political divide ahead of elections next year, will start next week and last...
Canberra: US officials stopped screening refugees held on Nauru for potential resettlement in the United States this week but will return to the...
Islamabad: Pakistan and Sri Lanka have called for breaking a stalemate in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), ruling out war...
Seoul: Acting South Korean leader Hwang Kyo-ahn demanded yesterday that all cows be vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) within this week amid the...
KATHMANDU, Nepal: Nepal's government has extended the work of a commission investigating deaths and abuses during a decade-long communist insurgency by one year...
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: U.S. defence firm Lockheed Martin wants to push ahead with plans to move production of its F-16 combat jets to India,...
