Riot police stand guard behind barricades as Thai protesters rally outside the Thai Royal Police Club yesterday. BANGKOK: Thailand’s government will deploy 10,000...
Riot police stand guard behind barricades as Thai protesters rally outside the Thai Royal Police Club yesterday. BANGKOK: Thailand’s government will deploy 10,000...
Taiwanese rights activists demonstrate in front of the Presidential Palace to demand President Ma Ying-jeou to rescue prominent Chinese activist Xu Zhiyong, in...
A woman inspects an ornament of leaping horses before buying it at a store in Chinatown, metro Manila, yesterday. According to the Chinese...
A five-year-old boy holds a pair of broken glasses while his father collects metal bars from a shanty that was taken down by...
BEIJING: China convicted two anti-graft campaigners yesterday for their roles in a protest urging officials to reveal their assets, the latest measures in...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s navy chief has denied a report that three Chinese navy ships patrolled an area claimed by the Southeast Asian country,...
SHANGHAI: A billionaire who Chinese media say is linked to the downfall of the former mayor of Nanjing has been arrested on suspicion...
SEOUL: South Korea approved yesterday a $7bn project to build two nuclear plants, a boost for an industry struggling to emerge from the...
Seoul: South Korea is investigating the problem that caused a nuclear reactor, located 330 kilometres southeast of Seoul in Uljin, to abruptly halt...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong announced yesterday it was imposing sanctions on the Philippines because of its “unacceptable” failure to apologise for a deadly...
MANILA: Philippine authorities said yesterday they had detained 11 people in raids on two fake call centre businesses that sold child pornography online...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino vowed yesterday to crush militants opposed to an imminent deal aimed at ending a decades-long Muslim separatist insurgency,...
MANILA: Ten Philippine police officers have been suspended for running a secret prison where jailors wearing wigs and masks beat and abused inmates,...
MANILA: Philippine authorities said on Tuesday they had seized a huge haul of more than 1,000 helmet shells from a protected species of...
US President Barack Obama gives a thumbs up to Army Ranger Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg, who was a guest of the First...
Anti-government protesters rally in Kiev yesterday, marking the 96th anniversary of a battle near the small city of Kruty in which 300 students,...
A four-metre-high snowman is built in Katzhuette, Germany. A family used two to three tons of snow to make the figure.
An employee poses with artist Andy Warhol’s artwork “Mao” at Sotheby’s auction house in London yesterday. The work is estimated to sell for...
