World / Asia

Indian President greets Pakistani counterpart on Pakistan Day 23 Mar 2016 - 01:23 pm

Pakistan women soldiers from the Army Medical Corps march past long-range ballistic Shaheen III missiles during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad...

Gunmen on motorcycles shoot dead four in turbulent Pakistani province 23 Mar 2016 - 01:08 pm

Peshawar, Pakistan: Gunmen on motorcyles have shot dead two policemen and a former intelligence official in a northwestern Pakistani province bearing the brunt...

Angry Japan parents demand more daycare as PM struggles to respond 23 Mar 2016 - 12:58 pm

Makiko Morohoshi holding her two-year-old son Amane, speaks next to her husband Kazuhiko during a rally in support of mothers and fathers whose...

New Myanmar finance chief discovers PhD is fake 23 Mar 2016 - 12:22 pm

Military representatives of the parliament attend a regular union parliament session in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 22 March 2016. EPA Yangon: Myanmar's incoming finance minister...

U.S. hopes for talks with China about possible THAAD move to South Korea 23 Mar 2016 - 11:36 am

South Korean defense ministry's Director General Major General Jang Kyung-soo (2nd R) talks with U.S. Forces Korea's Major General Robert Hedelund (3rd L)...

Bangladesh local election violence kills 11 23 Mar 2016 - 11:08 am

Dhaka: At least 11 people were killed in overnight violence as Bangladesh went to the polls for local elections, with seven of them...

Australian jailed in Singpore for sedition over website 23 Mar 2016 - 10:34 am

File photo of Australian Japanese Ai Takagi (front) and her Singaporean husband Yang Kaiheng (left). AFP/ Roslan Rahman Singapore: An Australian woman whose...

Asia most exposed to disaster risk but Africa likely to suffer more 23 Mar 2016 - 10:30 am

A Somali boy collects water from a well dug in the Shabelle River bed, which is dry due to drought in Somalia"s Shabelle...

China says Belgian PM cancels scheduled trip after attacks 23 Mar 2016 - 10:14 am

BEIJING: Belgium's prime minister has cancelled a scheduled trip to China after militant attacks in the Belgian capital on Tuesday, China's foreign ministry...

China vaccine scandal widens as regulators come under fire 23 Mar 2016 - 09:53 am

BY ADAM JOURDAN AND BRENDA GOH SHANGHAI: Chinese police have detained 37 people in a widening scandal over illegal vaccine sales, an official...

Manhunt in Punjab after car snatched at gunpoint 23 Mar 2016 - 09:33 am

Pathankot has been on high alert since the terrorist attack at the IAF base in January. Chandigarh: Punjab Police and other security agencies...

Agartala becomes India's third Internet gateway 23 Mar 2016 - 09:27 am

New Delhi: Agartala on Wednesday became India's third Internet gateway after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi Premier Sheikh Hasina inaugurated an Internet...

Severed cow's head placed at Hindu sanctuary in US 23 Mar 2016 - 09:25 am

New York: The severed head of cow has been placed at a Hindu cow sanctuary in Pennsylvania and the state police are investigating...

Islamic State claims killing of Christian in Bangladesh as “lesson to others” 23 Mar 2016 - 09:24 am

DHAKA: Islamic State claimed responsibility for stabbing a Christian to death in Bangladesh as a “lesson to others”, an online group that monitors...

Modi under fire as rising costs put squeeze on 'middle India' 23 Mar 2016 - 08:58 am

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the gathering at the venue of World Culture Festival on the banks of the river in New Delhi,...

Malaysia's former PM Mahathir sues Najib, alleging corruption 23 Mar 2016 - 08:56 am

Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad is pictured during an interview with Reuters at his office in Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in...

Bangladesh central bank weighs lawsuit against NY Fed over cyber heist 23 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka March 8, 2016. REUTERS, Ashikur Rahman Serajul Quadir DHAKA: Bangladesh’s...

U.S. Commander in Afghanistan apologizes for bombing of hospital 22 Mar 2016 - 04:42 pm

KABUL, Afghanistan: The new commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan apologized on Tuesday to the victims of the United States’ bombing...