BANGKOK: Thai telecommunications firm True Corp. has agreed to sell an 18-percent stake in its business to China Mobile for about 28.6 billion...
BANGKOK: Thai telecommunications firm True Corp. has agreed to sell an 18-percent stake in its business to China Mobile for about 28.6 billion...
PESHAWAR: At least 15 people were killed as Pakistan carried out early morning air strikes Tuesday on a militant-infested tribal district, the military...
TOKYO: Tokyo shares slipped 0.85 percent Tuesday as profit-taking and a stronger yen erased early gains. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index shed 129.20...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's air force launched air strikes in tribal areas on the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing at least 15 militants, the army...
KABUL: Five International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members died in southern Afghanistan, (ISAF) said in a statement. The statement further added that...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Tuesday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency...
Smoke rises after militants launched an early morning assault at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi yesterday. KARACHI: Thirty people were killed as Pakistan’s...
Pakistani army paramedics treat Shia pilgrims after they were attacked in the Pakistani town of Taftan, while returning from a pilgrimage to Iran,...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday rejected Afghan claims it was linked to an attack on presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah last week that left 12 people...
MIRANSHAH: A suspected Taliban suicide bomber rammed a truck into a Pakistan military checkpoint on the border with Afghanistan yesterday, killing four soldiers,...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has again warned the government to prepare for extreme drought conditions in the southern part of Pakistan,...
PESHAWAR: Tens of thousands of people from Pakistan’s most troubled tribal district have fled their homes fearing a long-awaited military operation is imminent,...
From left: Filipino senators Jose ‘Jinggoy’ Estrada, Ramon Revilla Junior and Juan Ponce Enrile embrace each other inside the Senate building in Pasay...
Miss Universe Thailand Weluree Ditsayabut, 22, speaks to the press at Renaissance Hotel in Bangkok yesterday. BANGKOK: Miss Universe Thailand has renounced her...
BEIJING: China has confirmed it will participate in a major US-organised naval drill for the first time, official media said yesterday, amid heightened...
MANILA: A radio broadcaster was shot dead in the Philippines yesterday, police said, the third journalist in just over a month to be...
TOKYO: Japan’s prime minister told parliament yesterday he would boost his efforts towards restarting commercial whaling, despite a top UN court’s order that...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi police are to set up check posts at the main entry points to the capital Dhaka to prevent the import of...