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MANILA: Col James Ezra Enriquez, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) official who opposed an order for Filipino peacekeepers to surrender, was...

MANILA: The Commission on Audit (COA) has returned to the national treasury P65.1m in unused allocation from the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Programme (DAP)....

MANILA: The Department of Health (DOH) announced yesterday that a Filipino nurse who came home from Saudi Arabia was tested positive for the...

MANILA:  Sen Jinggoy Estrada urged the Senate leadership yesterday to collectively vote on the issue of suspending a member following the order of...

MANILA: China yesterday expressed concern over last Monday’s foiled bombing attempt by a self-proclaimed anti-Chinese group as it asked the Philippine government to...

Labourers load recyclable cans onto a truck at a scrap yard on the outskirts of Kabul yesterday. Afghanistan’s economy has improved since the...

Pakistani security officials inspect the site of a bomb blast that targeted a police check post in Karachi, Pakistan, yesterday, leaving four policemen...

KARACHI: The federal government has failed to improve the governance levels in key public interest areas in the first year of its rule,...

Kabul: At least 35 Taliban militants were killed and 18 others were injured during military operations by Afghan national security forces in the...

ISLAMABAD: While the district administration withdrew all powers from the police to use force against the marchers, most of the senior police officers...

KABUL:  Afghanistan’s rival presidential campaigns were holding last-ditch talks yesterday to rescue a deal on a national government after a disputed election raised...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military said yesterday it had killed more than 910 militants and lost 82 soldiers since the start of a major operation...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani opposition groups agreed yesterday to resume talks with the government about a political crisis that has rocked the country but a...

TOKYO:  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe named five female cabinet ministers yesterday, leading by example in a country which economists say must make...

COLOMBO:  A retired Sri Lankan soldier died yesterday, a day after setting himself alight in what police said was a protest against UN...

TOKYO:  At least 15 people were injured yesterday after an explosion at a steel plant in central Japan, the latest in a series...

SEOUL:  Two South Korean soldiers have died after apparent suffocation during training to withstand capture by an enemy, a military official said, in...

JAKARTA:  Indonesia’s energy minister was named a suspect yesterday in a corruption case, the third member of the Cabinet to become embroiled in...