COLOMBO: Sri Lanka opened yesterday the first phase of a $500m container terminal, part of a Chinese-funded expansion of the country’s main port...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka opened yesterday the first phase of a $500m container terminal, part of a Chinese-funded expansion of the country’s main port...
JAKARTA: A small bomb exploded at a Buddhist temple in Indonesia’s capital, slightly injuring three people, in protest against violence against Rohingya Muslims...
BEIJING: China stepped up warnings to consumers yesterda over a botulism scare involving products from a New Zealand dairy company, and has demanded...
TOKYO: Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling...
BANGKOK: A well-respected Muslim cleric in Thailand’s violence-plagued south was killed yesterdayin one of the highest-profile assassinations of those working with the Thai...
A man (left) helps carry belongings of families relocating away from flood-prone areas of San Juan City, east of Manila, yesterday. The government...
MANILA: At least six people, including a policeman, died and 25 others were wounded in a roadside blast in Cotabato City this afternoon,...
MANILA: The most immediate way to resolve the decades-long row in South China Sea is for parties to agree to a joint exploration...
MANILA: The Philippine National Police yesterday defended the US travel advisory on its citizens worldwide in light of the arrest of local terrorist...
MANILA: Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila de Lima yesterday assured that criminal charges will be pursued against the Chinese nationals arrested last...
MANILA: The low pressure area being monitored by the state weather bureau near Palawan province has intensified into a tropical depression. The Philippine...
MANILA: Some 8.5 million Filipino families see themselves as “food-poor,” a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed yesterday. The survey,...
COTABATO CITY: Fourteen private surveying outfits will start setting this week demarcations separating several towns in Basilan and Maguindanao whose local government units...
ATHENS: A wildfire fanned by strong winds raged near Athens yesterday, damaging homes and sending residents fleeing, fire brigade officials said. Witnesses said...
Rescue workers outside a tunnel near Gudvangen, in Norway, after a truck caught fire inside the tunnel yesterday. OSLO: More than 50 people...
ROME: The threat of an Italian government crisis following former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s tax fraud conviction receded yesterday but the situation remains...
JOHANNESBURG: Having spent 27 years in jail, brought down racial apartheid and been elected South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, 95 and...
FORT HOOD, United States: Survivors of the Fort Hood massacre face being questioned this week by the US Army psychiatrist accused of committing...
