MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered the transport ministry to renegotiate loan agreements struck by his predecessor with China for railway projects...
MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered the transport ministry to renegotiate loan agreements struck by his predecessor with China for railway projects...
Japan found a record 110,600 new Covid cases on Saturday, surpassing the previous high set in February, just as the country prepares for...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled overseas this week to escape a popular uprising against his government, has said he...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday urged Group of 20 major economies to take urgent action to address a...
Sri Lankan lawmakers will elect a new president within seven days, the parliament speaker said after he confirmed that embattled leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa...
The International Monetary Fund is still in contact with officials at technical levels within the Sri Lankan government and hopes to be able...
MUMBAI/BENGALURU: India reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox on Thursday, the head of the national virology institute, which tested the sample, told...
BANGKOK: Veterinarians and park staff pulled off a dramatic rescue of a pair of elephants in Thailand this week that saw the use...
COLOMBO/SINGAPORE: Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has submitted a letter of resignation, two government sources said on Friday, after he fled to Singapore...
COLOMBO/SINGAPORE: Outgoing Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on Thursday after fleeing mass protests over his country's economic meltdown, as troops...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's main city, Colombo, was calm on Thursday as people waited for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, although a curfew...
Dispirited by pandemic lockdowns and a massive real estate crisis, today’s young Chinese workers are dreaming less about becoming super-rich entrepreneurs and more...
China’s broad budget deficit in the first six months of the year widened to a record as government spending climbed and falling land...
HONG KONG, July 14 (Reuters) - A Catholic priest launched a three-day protest on Thursday in sweltering heat outside a Hong Kong maximum...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left Maldives after fleeing his own country amid an economic collapse. He boarded...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Indonesia and India on Thursday underscored a call by emerging nations for more climate change financing, warning that rising energy...
SHANGHAI: For the third time this summer, Shanghai issued its highest alert for extreme heat as temperatures appeared set to test records in...