World / Asia

New Delhi, India: A microlite aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed on Wednesday while on a routine sortie in the northern...

Kariwa, Japan: The world's biggest nuclear power plant is set to restart on Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster,...

Nara, Japan: The gunman charged with killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was found guilty Wednesday and jailed for life, as the...

Manila: The Philippines said Wednesday it will end its ban on Elon Musk's Grok, less than a week after blocking the AI chatbot...

Manila: The Philippines' balance of payments (BOP) registered a 827 million U.S. dollars deficit in December 2025, bringing the full-year outcome to a...

Tokyo: A tourist helicopter carrying three people has gone missing near the summit of Mount Aso in south-western Japan, local authorities have said....

Kathmandu: Nepal's rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah will go into a head-to-head election battle with the veteran prime minister he helped unseat, as he champions...

Tokyo: Two hugely popular pandas at a Japanese zoo will depart on January 27 to join their sister in China, the Tokyo government...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has announced early elections to be held in the country on February 8, stating that she is...

Kabul: The Afghan authorities announced on Monday that several individuals had been killed and others wounded following a blast in the Shahr‑e Naw...

Kabul: A deadly explosion hit a central Kabul hotel on Monday, city police and the Afghan government said, and an AFP journalist saw...

Tokyo: Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative who admires Margaret Thatcher, became Japan's first woman prime minister in October, though she has shown little...

Karachi: A fire that ripped through a shopping mall in Pakistan's biggest city has killed at least 21 people, rescuers in Karachi said...

Jakarta: Indonesia's president has nominated his nephew to join the central bank board, a minister said on Monday, stoking concerns over the financial...

Makassar, Indonesia: Rescuers in Indonesia recovered on Monday a second body from a chartered plane that had crashed into a mountain with 10...

Tokyo: A technical glitch pushed back the restart of the world's biggest nuclear reactor in Japan, its operator said on Monday, a day...

Beijing, China: China's birth rate plunged last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed on Monday, as its population shrank...

Manila: Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos said Monday that a "significant" discovery of natural gas had been made near the country's sole producing offshore...