World / Asia

Luxury goods to visas: North Korea under UN sanctions 07 Jan 2016 - 12:00 am

United Nations, United States: Four sets of UN sanctions have been imposed on North Korea since it first tested an atomic device in...

North Korea test could put missile defence back in frame amid Chinese disquiet 06 Jan 2016 - 04:17 pm

People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. South...

Philippine parliament scraps budget for contraceptives 06 Jan 2016 - 01:09 pm

File photo taken in August 2012 shows people rallying for the passage of a bill providing greater access to birth control in Quezon...

Malaysia bans bauxite mining for three months amid pollution fears 06 Jan 2016 - 12:02 pm

Malaysia's Environment Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (C) speaks during a special press conference on bauxite mining activities in Kuala Lumpur on January...

Indonesia turns to China as ethnic Uighurs join would-be jihadis 06 Jan 2016 - 11:55 am

Saud Usman Nasution, the head of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency, gestures during an interview at his office in Bogor, January 5, 2016. By...

Hong Kong on holiday health alert after China bird flu death 06 Jan 2016 - 11:42 am

File picture for representation only HONG KONG: A woman in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has died after being infected with the...

Suu Kyi's victorious party to join parliament on February 1 06 Jan 2016 - 11:23 am

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark 68th anniversary of Myanmar's Independence day at the...

China 'firmly opposes' North Korean nuclear test: Beijing 06 Jan 2016 - 11:02 am

This picture taken on Jan 6, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un signing a document of a hydrogen bomb test in Pyongyang....

Malaysia Airlines baggage allowance restored to normal 06 Jan 2016 - 10:45 am

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) on Wednesday restored the normal baggage allowance and the normal route for its flights to Europe. "All Malaysia...

Consider limiting odd-even formula for a week: HC tells Delhi government 06 Jan 2016 - 10:33 am

File photo of the civil defence members on the day odd-even was introduced in Delhi New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday...

17 union ministers to tour Uttar Pradesh 06 Jan 2016 - 10:28 am

File photo of BJP spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak Lucknow: In what is possibly the biggest outreach by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in...

Maoists kill TDP leader for supporting bauxite mining 06 Jan 2016 - 10:23 am

Visakhapatnam: Maoists shot dead a former sarpanch (village headman) of the ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh's Viskhapatnam district late Tuesday, police...

'Anti Pak-India elements won't succeed in their plans' 06 Jan 2016 - 10:19 am

Pic for representation only Islamabad: Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Wednesday said some anti Pak-India elements want to sabotage the...

Combing operations continue in Pathankot; focus on NIA probe 06 Jan 2016 - 10:12 am

Indian security personnel stands guard at IAF base in Pathankot. Reuters Pathankot/Gurdaspur (Punjab): Combing operations continued on Wednesday to sanitise the Pathankot Air...

Indonesian passengers stung by delay due to bee on plane 06 Jan 2016 - 10:06 am

Jakarta: A bee delayed an Indonesian passenger plane for four hours after getting stuck in vital equipment and causing a problem with the...

5.1 magnitude quake detected close to North Korea nuclear test site 06 Jan 2016 - 09:29 am

Seoul: A 5.1 magnitude tremor was detected close to North Korea's nuclear test site on Wednesday, triggering concerns that Pyongyang had conducted a...

Bangladesh upholds death sentence for top Islamist leader 06 Jan 2016 - 08:58 am

Motiur Rahman Nizami (file photo) Dhaka: Bangladesh's highest court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for the leader of the country's largest Islamist...

One US service member dead, two wounded in Afghanistan: NBC 05 Jan 2016 - 06:52 pm

WASHINGTON: An unknown number of US special operations troops were killed or wounded in two separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, NBC reported on...