CHABCHA COUNTY, China: The streets of Chabcha county in western Qinghai province were quiet yesterday as Tibetan monks marked the Dalai Lama’s birthday...
CHABCHA COUNTY, China: The streets of Chabcha county in western Qinghai province were quiet yesterday as Tibetan monks marked the Dalai Lama’s birthday...
TOKYO: Iwao Hakamada worked at a soybean processing factory east of Tokyo when he was arrested and later sentenced to death for the...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc is set to secure a majority in the upper house in this month’s election, newspaper...
SINGAPORE: Police have arrested 108 suspects in an island-wide operation which ended early yesterday. The 21 men and 87 women aged between 17...
A woman talks to her son sitting on their couch after their shanty was demolished in a compound of informal settlers in Bignay...
ILOILO: Dengue fever has surged in the central Philippines, infecting more than 1,800 people and killing at least 10, a provincial official said...
MANILA: Communist insurgents yesterday promised revenge after Philippine soldiers killed their regional spokesmen along with seven other rebels in the latest operation against...
MANILA: Administration lawmakers yesterday called on Malacañang to adopt what they called a hands-off policy on cases involving Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking...
MANILA: Eight Japanese beauty products containing substances that can cause uneven skin colouring have been banned. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled...
MANILA: The United States has warned Americans against travel to the southern Philippines just days after Australia and Canada issued similar advice. A...
BILIRAN: Four children died on the spot and a fifth one at the hospital a day later, while two others are recuperating from...
The mangled wreckage of a motorcycle rickshaw lies on the ground as people gather on the railway tracks after the accident in Khanpur...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is expecting to receive about $5bn from multilateral lenders in six months following a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
KABUL: Sixteen years ago, Abdul Rahman Hotak helped prop one of the world’s most austere regimes for women as a newspaper editor and...
KARACHI: Nearly 20,000 fishermen have been forced to relocate themselves to different cities in the past three to four decades in search of...
ISLAMABAD: A draft resolution on peace recommendations for India and Pakistan through trade and other measures were presented by ex-ambassador to the US...
China’s Premier Li Keqiang (right) with Indian Defence Minister A K Antony during a meeting at Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing yesterday. BEIJING:...
Ayodhya/New Delhi: BJP leader Amit Shah’s bid to revive the Ram temple issue ahead of the 2014 general elections invited a sharp rebuke...
