Seoul - While North Korea has yet to publicly confirm any cases of the new coronavirus, authorities have doubled down on prevention efforts,...
Seoul - While North Korea has yet to publicly confirm any cases of the new coronavirus, authorities have doubled down on prevention efforts,...
Sydney - Australia on Thursday announced a ban on travellers from China would extend for at least a week beyond Saturday's planned deadline,...
Sihanoukville, Cambodia - A US cruise ship blocked from several Asian ports over concerns that a passenger could have been infected with the...
Beijing: The Chinese province at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more cases on Thursday...
Tokyo - Japan will allow some elderly passengers on a quarantined cruise liner who test negative for the new coronavirus to disembark ahead...
KUALA LUMPUR: An Indian couple was sentenced to more than five years in jail in Singapore on Tuesday for exploiting migrant women, the...
KATHMANDU: In a bid to reduce migrant deaths in the Middle East and Asia, millions of Nepalis who work overseas will be given...
GORAKHPUR: Balloon seller Nisha, 9, said purple was her favourite colour as she spoke into the microphone on a radio show in north...
BRUSSELS: The European Union has declared its intention to slap sanctions on Cambodia over what it considers to be the country's human rights...
LAHORE, Pakistan: Hafiz Saeed, accused by India and the United States of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, was jailed for 11 years...
Jakarta - Indonesia has criticised a US study questioning why the world's fourth most populous nation had not yet recorded a case of...
Hung Yen, Vietnam: After a career that began in instant noodles, Vietnam's richest man knows all about long shots, and now he's taking...
New Delhi: Shouting and crying, workers in an Indian denim factory struggled to claw their way up a ladder to a door, their...
Tokyo - Another 39 people have tested positive for the coronavirus on the cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined in Japan, with one quarantine...
BEIJING: After nearly a week of roaming China's epidemic-struck city, filming the dead and the sickened in overwhelmed hospitals, the strain of being...
Pakistan’s government ignored criticism over the delay in evacuating its students from China and its lawmakers found unanimity in an otherwise divided parliament...
New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was facing a major defeat by a regional party Tuesday in elections...
Tokyo - Two Japanese citizens evacuated from the epicentre of a novel coronavirus outbreak have been diagnosed with the infection after initially testing...
