BEIJING: China insisted yesterday it has the capacity to enforce its controversial newly-declared air zone over islands disputed with Japan, despite Beijing’s reluctance...
BEIJING: China insisted yesterday it has the capacity to enforce its controversial newly-declared air zone over islands disputed with Japan, despite Beijing’s reluctance...
MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday the imminent arrival of China’s sole aircraft carrier in the disputed South China Sea for the first time...
JAKARTA: Hundreds of Indonesians protested at an Australian war memorial on Borneo island yesterday, in the latest show of anger over allegations of...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s mass political protests spread outside the capital yesterday as opposition demonstrators stepped up their attempts to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s...
SINGAPORE: Singapore has assured Malaysia that it will not do anything to harm relations as the city-state grapples with allegations that it was...
HANOI: Vietnam will hand out fines of 100m dong ($4,740) to anyone criticising the government on social media, under a new law announced...
The newly appointed army chief Gen Raheel Sharif. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan named a new army chief yesterday, promoting a veteran infantry commander to the...
Trucks carrying logistic supplies for the Nato forces in Afghanistan wait for clearance near the Afghan border in Chaman, Pakistan, yesterday. Protesters on...
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Taliban militants gunned down and killed six people in Afghanistan working on a government-backed literacy project in the northern province of Faryab,...
KARACHI: With 20 special courts already functioning in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi and five in the pipeline, the home department has...
KARACHI: The trade potential between India and Pakistan is estimated to be around $20bn against the current around $3bn, according to a working...
Kabul: At least 33 Taliban militants were killed in joint operations launched by Afghan security forces and the International Security Assistance Force in...
A security personnel stands guard in front of the 32-metre Dish Antennae at the Indian Space Research Organisation Deep Space Network station, Telemetry...
Princess Astrid of Belgium (right) laughs as Belgium’s Vice-Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Didier Reynders holds up a bouquet during the inauguration of...
Forensic officials inspect the site of an overnight bomb blast at a village, located near the Kudankulam nuclear power plant yesterday. CHENNAI: The...
Hyderabad: Cyclonic storm Lehar is heading to cross Andhra Pradesh coast today but its intensity will come down at the time of the...
Panaji/New Delhi: Their case strengthened after the victim deposed in a Goa court yesterday, police told Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexual...
New Delhi: The BJP may emerge the single-largest party in Delhi assembly elections which are expected to throw up a hung house, said...
