HONG KONG: Chinese shares listed in Hong Kong posted their biggest gain in two months on Tuesday, led by financials as cash rates...
HONG KONG: Chinese shares listed in Hong Kong posted their biggest gain in two months on Tuesday, led by financials as cash rates...
TOKYO: Japanese NEC Corp. will sell its Internet service provider subsidiary NEC Biglobe Ltd. to a Tokyo-based investment fund, industry sources said Tuesday....
KARACHI: Gunmen killed three health workers taking part in a polio vaccination drive in Karachi on Monday, police said, in the latest blow...
BUTUAN CITY: Emergency workers evacuated thousands of people across the southern Philippines on Tuesday, including many already made homeless by a typhoon in...
JAKARTA: An Indonesian court Tuesday jailed the mastermind of an Islamic extremist plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy for seven-and-a-half years, but the...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait Projects Co (KIPCO) has chosen three banks to arrange meetings with fixed income investors ahead of a possible dollar-denominated bond...
KABUL: Unknown gunmen kidnapped at least 50 deminers in western Herat province of Afghanistan early Tuesday morning. The deminers were kidnapped by militants...
BEIJING: China will base a 5,000-tonne civilian patrol ship on one of the main islands it controls in the disputed South China Sea...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Abdullah A. M. Al-Khodari Sons Co said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter net profit slipped 68.9 percent as earnings at the...
Thai white shirt protesters hold up candles in a park calling for peace and expressing support for a right to vote in elections...
KABUL: Sixteen Taliban militants were killed in joint operations launched by Afghan security forces and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF)...
An Indian labourer works at a construction site of the Vaishno Devi Temple at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The two-way trade volume between China and Malaysia in 2013 reached 106 billion US dollars, making Malaysia China's third largest trade...
MANILA: The United Nations warned yesterday more needed to be done to help millions displaced by the Philippines’ deadliest typhoon, after a new...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he was “puzzled and shocked” at being barred entry to Japan, as his party...
HANOI: Vietnam yesterday sentenced 30 drug smugglers to death in the communist country’s largest ever narcotics case, involving scores of defendants and nearly...
TOKYO: Japan yesterday protested against a Chinese memorial to a Korean who assassinated a Japanese official over a century ago, branding him a...
PESHAWAR: Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships began airstrikes in a northwestern tribal district Tuesday, killing more than 20 militants in retaliation for...
