BANGKOK, Thailand on Wednesday charged eight activists of a civil rights group with violating the military government's ban on public gatherings, after it...
BANGKOK, Thailand on Wednesday charged eight activists of a civil rights group with violating the military government's ban on public gatherings, after it...
Batu Caves, Malaysia: Hundreds of thousands of Hindus across Malaysia celebrated the annual Thaipusam festival on Wednesday, with many piercing their skin with...
YANGON: A Myanmar official who was the administrator of a town in troubled Rakhine state when seven people died there in rioting earlier...
ALMATY: The veteran head of Uzbekistan's state security service, Rustam Inoyatov, has left his post and has been replaced by Ikhtiyor Abdullayev, previously...
Kabul, A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan Wednesday, the USGS said, with tremors felt as far away as Islamabad and New...
Tokyo, Japanese technology firm Fujifilm on Wednesday announced 10,000 job cuts by March 2020 in its Fuji Xerox subsidiary, which it said was...
Phnom Penh, Three Cambodians patrolling a protected forest in the remote east were gunned down after seizing a chainsaw from illegal loggers, authorities...
Beijing, China vowed Tuesday to force both local and foreign companies and individuals to use only government-approved software to access the global internet,...
TOKYO, A Japanese woman who was forcibly sterilised as a teenager due to intellectual disabilities sued the government on Tuesday in the first...
PARACHINAR, Pakistan, An explosion ripped through a car on Tuesday killing six members of a family driving to a Pakistan village to attend...
Sydney, Australia's biggest bank, the Commonwealth, was Tuesday taken to court by the corporate watchdog over allegations it rigged the benchmark interest rate,...
New Delhi, An eight-month-old Indian girl was Tuesday recovering in hospital after she was raped at her home in Delhi, the latest such...
Hualien, Taiwan: Taiwan troops staged live-fire exercises Tuesday to simulate fending off an invasion, as the island's main threat China steps up pressure...
HONG KONG: The European Union on Tuesday criticised the Hong Kong government's decision to bar a 21-year-old activist from standing for election, saying...
BEIJING: The wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Yu Wensheng said on Tuesday her husband had been charged with "inciting subversion of state...
Washington: A US government watchdog said Tuesday the Pentagon has barred it from disclosing how much of Afghanistan is under Taliban control --...
Shah Alam, Malaysia: The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un met an unidentified American on a tourist island in Malaysia four days...
KABUL: Militants on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate...
