GHAZNI: Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen while they were sleeping yesterday, in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan, officials said....
GHAZNI: Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen while they were sleeping yesterday, in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan, officials said....
KABUL: Afghan authorities said yesterday they have arrested five Taliban insurgents who were planning suicide attacks on civilians in the capital Kabul and...
Taiwanese soldiers launch a US-made FCM-148 javelin during a military drill in western Penghu islands on Wednesday. Taiwan staged its biggest live-fire military...
BEIJING: China will send its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, on a voyage on the high seas for the first time within a...
SEOUL: North Korea yesterday rejected a new request by businessmen from the South to deliver food and supplies to their staff inside a...
HONG KONG: Striking Hong Kong dock workers camped outside the headquarters of Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing pledged to stay put yesterday despite...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will not attend a summit of Southeast Asian leaders next week in Brunei in order to...
GENEVA: Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled communal violence in Myanmar are in danger as the monsoon season looms, the UN’s...
SEOUL: A South Korean court yesterday sentenced a convicted North Korean spy to four years in prison for collecting information on the South’s...
President Benigno Aquino III (right) taking his position with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei for a guard of honour as the sultan arrives...
MANILA: Immigration authorities and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) went on alert on reports of possible terror attacks following the bombing of the...
PUERTO PRINCESA: A Chinese fishing vessel that ran aground on one of the Philippines’ most famous coral reefs more than a week ago...
MANILA: The Philippines is the 26th most socially advanced country, a report by a London-based organisation showed. The Philippines had good rankings in...
MANILA: Four people were missing after a huge garbage dump collapsed just outside the Philippine capital yesterday, the provincial police chief said. The...
MANILA: Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr said yesterday he is against the return of US bases in the country but backed the temporary stationing...
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts: Boston was a city under siege Friday, as more than 9,000 police backed by helicopters and armored vehicles hunted for a...
BEIJING: Experts from the UN's health agency are examining whether the H7N9 bird flu virus is spreading among humans, after a cluster of...
NEW YORK: Dell announced Friday that the bidding consortium led by Blackstone Management Partners, initially interested in acquiring Dell, has decided not to...