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SEOUL: Talks between North and South Korea about reopening their jointly-run industrial zone collapsed yesterday, with both sides failing to set a date...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy lost his attempt to regain lawmaker status yesterday in a new setback to his efforts to...

DHAKA: Bangladesh yesterday defended its new labour laws, and said it was angry at criticism from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which called...

TAIPEI: A Taiwanese politician known for her close ties with the president was indicted yesterday on corruption charges, a prosecutor said. Lai Su-ju,...

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar has revised a controversial copper mine deal with a Chinese company, officials said yesterday, after a series of protests against the...

KUALA LUMPUR: Japan yesterday offered Malaysia technology to build a multi-million-dollar high-speed railway and other infrastructure, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began a...

A poor residential district and squatter colonies in Taguig, Metro Manila. The Philippines was Asia’s fastest-growing economy in the first three months of...

MANILA: The United States will help preserve the Philippines’ rapidly vanishing tropical rainforests under an $31.8m debt-to-aid conversion signed in Manila yesterday, the...

MANILA: Two Philippine policemen have been charged with murder over the shooting death of two gangsters in their custody, Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas...

MANILA: The recent presence of armed coast guard vessels of China in the West Philippine Sea contributes to the tension in the disputed...

MANILA: Foreign rights advocates yesterday urged the European Union to withdraw its €10m grant to the Philippine Justice Support Programme for Manila’s failure...

MANILA: Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr yesterday vowed swift action on the proposed Bangsamoro law that President Aquino has promised to submit soon to...

MANILA: A government directive for female Muslim teachers to take off their veils in class is not mandatory nor meant to curtail religious...

TUNIS: A leading opposition figure and critic of Tunisia's ruling Islamists, Mohamed Brahmi, was shot dead by unknown gunmen outside his home near...

MANILA: Moody's Investors Service signalled Thursday it was likely to elevate the Philippine government's debt rating to investment-grade, citing the former basket-case nation's...

GENEVA: A United Nations body that handles war reparations for Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait said Thursday it had handed over a further...

DOHA: Qatar's women national team coach Monika Staab has revealed her admiration of the country's sports infrastructure, saying that she expects to change...

DUBAI: The Commercial Bank of Dubai's (CBD) net profit for the first 6 months of 2013 increased by 2.3 percent to Dhs497m as...