The Epsilon rocket lifts off from the Uchinoura Space Centre in south-western Japan yesterday. TOKYO: Japan’s new solid-fuel rocket successfully blasted off yesterday...
The Epsilon rocket lifts off from the Uchinoura Space Centre in south-western Japan yesterday. TOKYO: Japan’s new solid-fuel rocket successfully blasted off yesterday...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s king brought Prime Minister Hun Sen face to face with the head of the opposition for the first time in...
BEIJING: The United States hopes that tentative diplomatic engagement between China and Japan amid their dispute over a group of islands in the...
COLOMBO: A train linking the political home of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels with the rest of the island rolled into service yesterday...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday announced cash aid and a raft of measures to bolster the economic status of ethnic...
BANGKOK: A roadside bomb killed two soldiers in Thailand’s insurgency-ridden deep south yesterday, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks...
President Benigno Aquino (centre, in black) checking on the condition of wounded soldiers at Camp Navarro Hospital in Zamboanga City, in southern Philippines....
COTABATO CITY: Local executives in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are calling on the Organisation of Islamic Conference to stop recognising...
COTABATO CITY: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) helped the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao put up its...
MANILA: US President Barack Obama’s visit to the Philippines next month will help expand security ties with its longtime Asian ally, the government...
MANILA: The government has alerted thousands of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Israel and neighbouring countries of a possible spillover of the worsening...
MANILA: A physician implicated in the P12bn investment scam that Aman Futures Group Phils Inc had allegedly perpetrated will be indicted for syndicated...
MANILA: Twelve soldiers were wounded in successive clashes with the New People’s Army (NPA) and in a landmine blast in Surigao del Norte...
An aerial view of suburban streets flooded in Longmont, Colorado. DENVER: Colorado farming communities along the South Platte River were ordered to evacuate...
LONDON: British Business Secretary Vince Cable said that he will press a government commission to raise the minimum wage to ensure it is...
LOS ANGELES: A Hawaiian woman with a 35-letter surname has persuaded the Pacific island US state’s authorities to change their official ID card...
WASHINGTON: A 12-year-old Florida girl who suffered months of ruthless cyber bullying from other girls committed suicide this week, authorities say. Rebecca Ann...
WASHINGTON: US First Lady Michelle Obama, known for urging US children to be more active and eat their vegetables, began a new health...
