BANGKOK: A Thai court has sentenced a top rice trader believed to have close ties with former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to three years...
BANGKOK: A Thai court has sentenced a top rice trader believed to have close ties with former premier Thaksin Shinawatra to three years...
BEIJING: China yesterday accused the Philippines of creating tension in the region and urged Manila to show “sincerity” in upholding stability after President...
SEOUL: North Korea yesterday denounced a forthcoming American comedy film featuring a plot to assassinate its leader Kim Jong Un as an act...
YANGON: Proposals by radical Buddhist monks to criminalise inter-faith marriage in Myanmar face strong opposition from women’s rights groups in a tussle over...
GENEVA: Former Finnish president and Nobel laureate Martti Ahtisaari will serve as an advisor to an international inquiry into alleged war crimes in...
CAIRO: An Egyptian television soap opera has been banned days before it was to be aired because the censors believe it shows police...
DOHA: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has inaugurated seven new mosques to accommodate more than 3000 worshipers in the areas of ...
Argentina's forward Lionel Messi (R) runs next to midfielder Augusto Fernandez during a team training session at the Beira-Rio Stadium in Porto Alegre...
ALGIERS: Algeria has agreed to deliver to Egypt five liquefied natural gas cargoes of 145,000 cubic metres each before the end of the...
DOHA: UNESCO's World Heritage Committee's (WHC) 38th session, under HE the Chair Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, has accepted the Government of...
DOHA: The Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the Advisory Council on Wednesday held a meeting, presided over by its rapporteur Mohamed Ajaj...
DOHA: Twenty -five labour inspectors of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MLSA) took oath today before HE Minister of Labour and...
BANGUI, Central African Republic: Nearly 50 people have been killed in three days in a fresh surge of sectarian violence in the Central...
DOHA: Qatar Chamber (QC) Vice-Chairman Mohammed bin Ahmed bin Tawar said that Qatar has great interest in enhancing bilateral cooperation with the Sudan...
NICOSIA: Ratification documents of a Memorandum of Understanding on education signed in Doha on January 27 between the governments of Qatar and Cyprus...
TOKYO: Japan will hold talks with North Korea next week to work out the details of Pyongyang's plan to reinvestigate the fate of...
Philippine President Benigno Aquino (left) speaks as Japan’s Prime Minister Abe listens during a news conference in Tokyo yesterday. TOKYO: Philippine President Benigno...
A worker cleans a dome on Al Mashun Mosque ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Medan, North Sumatra province, yesterday.