TAIPEI: Seventeen passengers were injured when their train was derailed by mudslides in southern Taiwan yesterday after a tropical storm triggered widespread flooding....
TAIPEI: Seventeen passengers were injured when their train was derailed by mudslides in southern Taiwan yesterday after a tropical storm triggered widespread flooding....
WASHINGTON: North Korea has rescinded its invitation for a senior US envoy to travel to Pyongyang to seek the release of a detained...
COLOMBO: UN human rights chief Navi Pillay yesterday accused Sri Lanka of becoming “increasingly authoritarian”, with activists facing growing military harassment four years...
BEIJING: An earthquake yesterday hit a remote part of southwest China near the popular tourist area of Shangri-La, killing five people and injuring...
TOKYO: Environmentalists staged a rally in Tokyo yesterday to protest the start of Japan’s annual dolphin hunt, which was made infamous by an...
JAKARTA: A top Indonesian energy official has been banned from overseas travel, media reported yesterday, in the latest graft case this month which...
Women carry their children to a medical mission for flood victims, organised by the United Nations Population Fund in Tondo, Manila.
MANILA: As part of his tour of Southeast Asia, US President Barack Obama is expected to drop by Manila soon and meet President...
MANILA: The United States wants to use Philippine bases for extended periods of up to 20 years, a Manila official said yesterday as...
DAVAO CITY: An alleged bomber was killed and his companion was captured during a fighting in the southern Philippines on Friday, the Philippine...
MANILA: Two soldiers were killed in a firefight with communist guerrillas in the northern Philippines while in a separate clash police backed by...
MANILA: One of this year’s recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards hopes that the honour will help draw national and international attention to...
MANILA: Malacañang yesterday said that it is ready to assign more security men to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, who revealed that she had received...
MANILA: Through a taxi they allegedly used in robbing a restaurant over the weekend, two cabbies were arrested in Quezon City on Thursday...
PHNOM PEHN: At least 100 staff at the United Nations Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia are to go on strike over unpaid wages...
The Rim Fire burns at night in this United States Forest Service handout photo near Yosemite National Park. SAN FRANCISCO: Fire crews battling...
London: The government took more than three weeks to act on authoritative information about the whereabouts of a collection of secret intelligence data...
HAVANA: US swimmer Diana Nyad set off from Cuba yesterday in her fifth and final bid to become the first person to reach...
