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TOKYO: Hiroshima University said yesterday it would bestow honorary doctorates on three former students from Southeast Asia who survived the 1945 atomic bombing...

HANOI: A prominent dissident lawyer was detained yesterday by Vietnamese police while dropping off his daughter at school, his brother said. Le Quoc...

Philippine health official Enrique Tayag (centre) performs the ‘Gangnam Style’ dance with students during an awareness campaign on firecrackers in Manila yesterday. The...

MANILA: Tropical Storm Wukong left six people dead and two missing as it cut through the central Philippines, following devastating Typhoon Bopha that...

MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it would buy three naval helicopters from an Anglo-Italian manufacturer as part of its military modernisation programme amid...

MANILA: Authorities are still looking into what could be the cause of the fire that trapped and killed a family of six and...

MANILA: The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) special panel handling the P12bn ($286m) Aman Futures estafa case wrapped up its investigation yesterday after two...

MANILA: Malacañang counted the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona over alleged inconsistencies in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth...

  MANILA: The representative  of Bohol, Erico Aumentado, one of the senior opposition leaders in the House of Representatives, died of pneumonia on Tuesday...

DUBAI:  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday dismissed his only female cabinet minister, Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, after she criticised her colleagues...

SINGAPORE: Doctors in Singapore battled Thursday to save the life of an Indian student who sustained horrific injuries in a gang-rape after she...

NEW DELHI: Swedish luxury car maker Volvo said on Thursday it was studying the possibility of setting up a car manufacturing plant in...

TOKYO: Japan's Toshiba is in talks with three parties about selling a stake of up to 16 percent in US nuclear power plant...

FRANKFURT: German top-of-the-range carmaker BMW sold a record 1.8 million vehicles in 2012, chief financial officer Friedrich Eichiner said in a newspaper interview...

DOHA: The Qatar Exchange down on Thursday 16.16 points or 0.19% to 8,311.22 points from the previous closing of 8,327.38 points. The volume...

RUNGIS, France: President Francois Hollande said Thursday Islamist groups holding French hostages in Africa were not trustworthy and should not be taken seriously...

DOHA: HE Chairman of Qatar's Administrative Control and Transparency Authority Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah met here on Thursday with Ambassador of the Republic...

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani met at his Emiri Diwan Office on Thursday morning with President of the...