World / Asia

UNITED NATIONS: Jacinda Ardern knows all about juggling her role as a mother with the requirements of her job. The prime minister of...

Sydney: Australian shoppers need to back farmers besieged by a contaminated fruit scare, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday, as it emerged Singapore's...

PHNOM PENH:  As aid workers rushed to vaccinate Rohingya refugees against measles earlier this year, rumours swirled through the overcrowded camps in Bangladesh...

BANDUNG, Indonesia:  Indonesian officials touted a new agrarian reform law as a major step forward in an ambitious land distribution programme, but activists...

RAIGAUN, Nepal:  On a recent summer morning, Suntali Rai was busy counting and stacking zinc sheets as she prepared to lay them on...

New Delhi: She was at the peak of her career when she decided to step into motherhood, but tennis star Sania Mirza, who...

BANGKOK, The Thai capital is considering jailing people who feed pigeons in public to try to eliminate the risk of bird flu and...

Mumbai, A passenger was kicked off an Indian flight after he tried to access the cockpit to charge his phone, the airline said...

Sydney, Australia's scandal-plagued banks are braced for "judgement day", as a public inquiry into industry misconduct prepares to publish its initial findings after...

KABUL, Afghanistan: The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says 21 civilians were killed in two separate airstrikes over the weekend. It says in a...

New Delhi: India's top court Wednesday upheld the legality of the government's Aadhaar national identity project, the world's largest biometric database, but imposed...

BEIJING: China will crack down on government departments responsible for "zombie" websites that have not been updated for years, telephone lines that are...

Beijing: China expressed "strong dissatisfaction" on Tuesday over US plans to sell a batch of military parts to the self-governing island of Taiwan,...

Manila: A Philippine lawmaker fiercely critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war was arrested Tuesday on previously dismissed charges, a move condemned by...

Mumbai, An Indian passenger sparked panic in mid-air when he tried to open a plane door, apparently mistaking it for the toilet, the...

Bangkok, The bodies of a wealthy British retiree and his Thai wife were found buried on their own property Tuesday a week after...

KHAR, Pakistan: A Pakistani government official says gunmen have shot and killed a policeman assigned to protect polio workers in the country's northwest....

Koror, Palau, DHL heir and convicted drug trafficker Larry Hillbroom Jr was given permission Tuesday to leave the Pacific nation of Palau to...