JAKARTA: Forest fires in Indonesia, which have cloaked Singapore in record-breaking smog, are raging on palm oil plantations owned by Indonesian, Malaysian and...
JAKARTA: Forest fires in Indonesia, which have cloaked Singapore in record-breaking smog, are raging on palm oil plantations owned by Indonesian, Malaysian and...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong authorities were silent yesterday on the fate of a former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor ahead of an...
WASHINGTON: The nominee to become the top US diplomat in East Asia delivered pointed comments about China in his confirmation hearing Thursday, saying...
MANILA: Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul paid a courtesy call on President Aquino and signed three agreements aimed at...
NEW YORK: With exotic locations, an international cast and plots that involve tracking serial criminals across European borders, Crossing Lines, which debuts on...
LOS ANGELES: Musician Andrew W K, the self-described “party king,” set a new world record after playing drums nonstop for 24 hours during...
KUWAIT: Kuwait Projects Co (KIPCO), the country's largest investment company by assets, said on Saturday it had hired financial group Rothschild to advise...
RIYADH: More than 1.5 million foreign workers in Saudi Arabia have changed their residence status since April ahead of a planned crackdown on...
BEIJING: OAO Rosneft has signed a $270 billion supply deal with China National Petroleum Corp., making the Asian nation Russia’s biggest market for...
DOHA: Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Electricity of Djibouti to jointly evaluate to develop a potential...
MUMBAI: A four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai Saturday, killing five people in the second such incident in as many days and underlining shoddy...
TOKYO: Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group plans to buy a 51 percent stake in Thailand's Bank of Ayudhya for about 400 billion yen...
RIYADH: An elderly Saudi man has died from the MERS virus, bringing the kingdom's death toll from the SARS-like infection to 33, the...
A file photo dated 08 May 2007 shows Japanese farmers picking tea leaves under the summit of Mount Fuji, in Shizuoka province, Japan....
BEIRUT: Syria's army on Saturday pressed a fierce assault launched four days ago against rebel areas in northern and eastern Damascus, killing three...
BAGHDAD: Seventy-one members of an exiled Iranian opposition group based at a camp near Baghdad have been relocated to Albania, the UN said...
DOHA: The US envoy in charge of nascent dialogue with the Taliban has arrived in Qatar days after the Afghan insurgents opened a...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A young actress suffered burn injuries in an acid attack in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, her relatives and police said. The...
