TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Premier Jiang Yi-huah yesterday survived a no-confidence vote launched by opposition lawmakers who accused the government of violating the constitution over...
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Premier Jiang Yi-huah yesterday survived a no-confidence vote launched by opposition lawmakers who accused the government of violating the constitution over...
YANGON: A female guest was injured in an explosion in an upscale hotel in Myanmar’s biggest city late on Monday, police said, in...
TOKYO: A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan yesterday, disrupting travel and shipping and forcing precautions to be taken at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power...
BEIJING: A Chinese court has convicted six officials in the drowning of a man reportedly stripped and held under water to try to...
BEIJING: A Chinese man in a wheelchair who detonated a home-made bomb in Beijing’s airport after trying to draw attention to a nearly...
Rescuers recover an injured from rubble at a fishing port in Cebu City and (right) people walk past the damaged Church of San...
MANILA: Eleven companies have expressed interest to join the bidding for the acquisition of two Navy ships worth P18bn. The 11 firms are...
MANILA: The Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday denied reports that Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding Chairman Nur Misuari has already left the...
MANILA: The government has spent at least P150m ($3.4m) to bankroll security operations in Zamboanga City, a military official said yesterday. Armed Forces...
US House Speaker Republican John Boehner addressing a news conference after a meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington DC yesterday....
LONDON: Britain’s police watchdog yesterday questioned the honesty of three officers whose actions helped spark the resignation of former minister Andrew Mitchell, lending...
PARIS: Around one person in 2,000 in Britain carries the protein linked to the human version of mad cow disease, a figure higher...
WASHINGTON: The US National Security Agency collects hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world,...
LONDON: A television appeal about the 2007 disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal has triggered nearly 1,000 calls and emails, Scotland...
LONDON: Fancy an aircraft carrier for Christmas? Britain’s cash-strapped military yesterday launched a search for buyers for its sole remaining aircraft carrier, saying...
Fishermen pull nets containing fish from a pond during the traditional carp haul in the village of Stankov, near the south Bohemian town...
MOSCOW: Russian authorities said yesterday they had foiled a plot by Islamist radicals to bomb a chemical weapons facility and had arrested two...
BERLIN: The Social Democrats (SPD) bemoaned a lack of concessions from Angela Merkel, while her conservative allies accused the SPD of trying to...
