A soldier stands guard near a barbed wire fence on Hwanggumpyong Island located in the middle of the Yalu River, near the North...
A soldier stands guard near a barbed wire fence on Hwanggumpyong Island located in the middle of the Yalu River, near the North...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (centre) with army officials at an urgent military operation meeting at the Supreme Command in Pyongyang, early yesterday,...
DHAKA: Clashes in Bangladesh between police and supporters of the country’s biggest Islamic party left five dead yesterday during protests linked to ongoing...
BEIJING: Chinese authorities have detained the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on a fraud charge, his lawyer said yesterday....
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka boosted security for Muslim-owned businesses across the country yesterday after a clothing store was torched by hundreds of Buddhist hardliners,...
BEIJING: More than 80 workers were buried when a huge landslide came crashing down a mountainside in Tibet yesterday, Chinese state-run media said....
A vendor stands next to his display of eyeglasses and belts on a side street at Manila’s Makati financial district yesterday. Fitch Ratings...
MANILA: The sultanate of Sulu yesterday urged Manila to first meet with Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III before making any formal effort to...
Ruben Enaje shows three-inch nail which he used yesterday on a Good Friday crucifixion re-enactment in San Pedro Cutud town, Pampanga province, north...
MANILA: It is not impossible to rise from almost a decade of stumbling along. This was the Lenten message of President Aquino to...
MANILA: Fewer Filipinos are tying the knot, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO). There were 476,408 marriages registered in 2011, down by...
MANILA: As campaigning for local candidates in the May 13 mid-term polls starts today, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is bracing itself for...
Soldiers gather at the site of the bomb blast in Peshawar, yesterday. PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber yesterday targeted a senior Pakistani police commander,...
KARACHI: Bail for Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was extended yesterday, court and his party officials said yesterday. Musharraf appeared in the...
ISLAMABAD: With no income or fixed assets, former president Asif Ali Zardari’s party, Pakistan People’s Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P), is the poorest, according to its...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former legislators of different political shades may have resigned to escape disqualification for having dual nationality, but the Supreme Court has...
KABUL: The Afghan government has accused Pakistan of wrecking efforts to end the Taliban’s bloody 11-year insurgency, in the latest sign of worsening...
