Jakarta: Indonesia has agreed to work with the Netherlands to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several World War II shipwrecks -- considered war...
Jakarta: Indonesia has agreed to work with the Netherlands to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several World War II shipwrecks -- considered war...
KARACHI, Pakistan: At least 10 people have been killed and 18 others injured in shelling by Indian forces along the dividing boundary of...
SEOUL: South Korea raised the country's bird flu alert status on Wednesday to its second-highest level following three more outbreaks of the highly...
New Delhi: Six heavily armed Maoist rebels were killed Wednesday in a jungle gunbattle with police in eastern India, an officer said. Police...
Islamabad: At least nine people were killed and seven others wounded in cross-border fire which hit a Pakistani bus in disputed Kashmir on...
BEIJING: Seven miners remain trapped after a coal mine flooded in eastern China. Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday that 21 miners were working...
KARACHI, Pakistan: With Pakistan’s popular army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif retiring next week, the capital Islamabad has become the playing field for a...
Phnom Penh: Cambodia's UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge leaders on Wednesday for crimes against humanity, in a...
HERAT, Afghanistan: It is early morning in a saffron field outside the western Afghan city of Herat and dozens of women are harvesting...
Seoul: Japan and South Korea signed a controversial agreement on Wednesday to share defence intelligence on North Korea, despite protests from opposition parties...
Serpentine queues spilling from banks. Parents worried that they can’t provide for their families. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing to Indians to bear...
LONDON: A U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis...
NEW DELHI: India may soon relax conditions for cash withdrawals for weddings, a top government official said on Tuesday, the day after the...
Carnatic vocalist, playback singer and composer Mangalamapalli Balamuralikrishna died on Tuesday, reports The Hindu. He was 86 and is survived by his wife,...
MATSUDO, Japan: Gursewak Singh composed his first letter to Japan’s justice minister when he was 10 years old. Almost seven years later, he...
Srinagar, India: India said three of its soldiers were killed Tuesday on the de facto border in disputed Kashmir and blamed Pakistani troops....
TOKYO: On a morning in mid-September, Utinan Won hugged his mother and then watched as she passed through departures at Tokyo’s Narita airport...
Hanoi: Power-hungry Vietnam scrapped plans for two multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants on Tuesday, citing environmental and financial reasons after the cost of...
