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Visitors looks on a professional diver wearing a Santa Claus suit while swimming inside a giant aquarium as part of celebrations for Christmas...

MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino urged Southeast Asian countries yesterday to present a united front to China over the South China Sea at...

MANILA: Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes believes at least eight million voters will be disenfranchised if the mandatory biometrics registration is...

MANILA: Malacañang stood pat yesterday on the government’s proposed sin tax bill that is expected to collect some P40bn ($900m) in revenues, saying...

MANILA: The Senate yesterday took custody of five rice traders who were ordered to attend the hearings on the smuggling of rice at...

MANILA: The Malaysian head of a trading firm that allegedly duped thousands of middle class investors in Mindanao has fled to his home...

  MANILA: A couple and their two sons aged 6 and 8 were killed, their bodies mutilated and dumped in a septic tank at...

DOHA: The Chairman of Administrative Control and Transparency Authority (ACTA), HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, met here today with Finland's non-resident Ambassador to...

DOHA: The Qatar Exchange down on Thursday 17.57 points or 0.21% to 8,448.49 points from the previous closing of 8,466.06 points.   The volume...

SEOUL: Samsung on Thursday announced a new 64GB memory chip for smartphones and tablets, which it says is 20% smaller and a third...

ASHGABAT: Turkmenistan plans to begin production at the world's second-largest gas field next year, a senior Turkmen official said, opening up new U.S.-backed...

AMMAN: Riots that broke out in Jordan after the government raised fuel prices left one protester dead on Thursday, the first fatality of...

WASHINGTON: Kuwait and the World Bank signed here on Wednesday a USD 50 million grant agreement to support the ongoing Palestinian Reform and...

MANILA: Swiss experts will soon begin clearing unexploded bombs in the southern Philippines, after Muslim rebels and the government signed a peace pact,...

DOHA: HH the Deputy Emir and Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met here on Thursday morning at his EmiriDiwan office...

TOKYO: Sony shares dived to three-decade lows in Tokyo on Thursday after the troubled Japanese electronics maker announced a $1.9 billion bond issue...

DOHA: HE Chairman of Qatar's Administrative Control and Transparency Authority Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, who is also the President of the Climate...

PARIS: Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris is interested in buying the SFR telecom business from French group Vivendi, which is in the midst of...