ISLAMABAD: After getting approval of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for winding up different sections of Pakistani missions abroad, the ministries have ordered their...
ISLAMABAD: After getting approval of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for winding up different sections of Pakistani missions abroad, the ministries have ordered their...
ISLAMABAD: The Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, Dr Abdul Aziz Ibrahim Al Ghadeer called on the Federal Minister for Interior and Narcotics...
A security guard chases a Buddhist monk from a camp occupied by anti-government demonstrators in Phnom Penh yesterday. PHNOM PENH: Anti-government demonstrators said...
Six-year-old female Asiatic elephant ‘Yumeka’ poses near the calligraphy of ‘Horse’, the year 2014’s animal of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs, at the...
A view of Manila covered in smog is seen from Antipolo City, Rizal province. The haze was caused by an extensive use of...
A Filipino father holding his child injured from a firework accident rushes to a government hospital during celebration of New Year in Manila....
DHAKA: Dozens of polling booths were torched and a train set alight on the eve of Bangladesh’s election as the opposition launched a...
BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s party yesterday kicked off campaigning for February elections in the face of an opposition boycott and protester...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong customs seized nearly four million cigarettes, worth over $1.2m, in a two-week operation aimed at stifling smuggling in the...
KUALA LUMPUR: Dozens of journalists protested yesterday in Malaysia against the suspension of a weekly magazine, urging the Southeast Asian nation to allow...
LIMASSOL: A Chinese frigate which will help escort Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons out of the country docked in Cyprus yesterday as part...
ZAMBOANGA: Eight fishermen including two boys have been shot and beheaded in a gruesome attack at sea off the troubled southern Philippines, police...
MANILA: More than 275,000 families affected by Typhoon Haiyan in Eastern Visayas will continue to get dole-outs from the government until March 31,...
MANILA: Senior US State Department officials and international policymakers will meet next week in Washington to discuss a comprehensive disaster assessment and rehabilitation...
NORTH COTABATO: The military yesterday warned the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters of dire consequences if the latter do not cease from attempting to...
MANILA: Malacañang is committed to pursuing compensation for the damage made by a US ship that ran aground last year at Tubbataha Reef,...
MANILA: Leaders of the House of Representatives believe the loss of the of pork barrel will not diminish the vigour of lawmakers in...
MANILA: Marijuana will remain illegal in the Philippines unless Congress amends the law, Malacañang said yesterday. Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said under...
