MANILA: Malacañang must explain to the public the details of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) signed by the Philippines and the US,...
MANILA: Malacañang must explain to the public the details of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) signed by the Philippines and the US,...
WASHINGTON: Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay, said on Thursday he favoured relaxing constitutional restrictions on foreign investment to create jobs. Binay, who has...
DAVAO: Communist insurgents who seized 39 gold prospectors in the southern Philippines have released all but three of them, authorities said yesterday. Guerrillas...
HANOI: Vietnam has condemned as illegal the operation of a Chinese deep-water drilling rig in what Vietnam says is its territorial water in...
PHNOM PENH: Thousands of Cambodian garment workers have gone back to work after striking to demand a $50 bonus in return for shunning...
SEOUL: South Korean recovery workers strengthened a ring of netting around a sunken ferry yesterday to try to prevent corpses drifting away as...
SINGAPORE: Singapore plans to build more recreation centres in the suburbs to draw migrant labourers away from the city after a rare riot...
Pro-Russian armed men ride on top of an armoured personnel carrier near the town of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine. SLAVYANSK: Ukraine’s military suffered heavy...
South African paralympic Oscar Pistorius (centre) leaves court after a hearing in Pretoria yesterday. PRETORIA: Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial resumed yesterday with a...
Left: Acrobats performing the aerial hair-hanging stunt. ABOVE: Emergency personnel attend to Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus performers who were injured...
A participant takes part in the Bristol Park and Slide project, an interactive temporary installation by artist Luke Jerram set up in Park...
VATICAN CITY/GENEVA: A UN committee on torture grilled the Vatican on the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse crisis yesterday, urging a permanent investigation...
KANO: Boko Haram yesterday claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria that has triggered international outrage, threatening to...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday brushed off suggestions an anti-corruption report criticising a $23m state-funded security upgrade to his home would...
LONDON: Union leaders called off a three-day strike by London underground train staff hours before it was due to start yesterday, sparing millions...
BELFAST: The son of a mother-of-ten murdered by the IRA voiced disappointment yesterday after Irish republican leader Gerry Adams was released without charge...
PANAMA CITY: Conservative Juan Carlos Varela called for a national unity government after winning Panama’s presidential election on Sunday, easily defeating President Ricardo...
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court yesterday upheld the right to pray at government meetings, in a divided decision which said the practice did...
