Gaza City: Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said yesterday that talks in Cairo with Egyptian officials had been "fruitful". While the group refrained from...
Gaza City: Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said yesterday that talks in Cairo with Egyptian officials had been "fruitful". While the group refrained from...
Hanoi: Vietnam said it would punish four officials over one of its worst environmental disasters, caused by a unit of Taiwan conglomerate Formosa...
Jakarta: An Indonesian man arrested in Bali this week for suspected links to the Islamic State group after traveling to Turkey was an...
Bangkok: A THAI military court yesterday jailed a man for 11 years and four months on charges of royal defamation and computer crime...
Tokyo: The number of foreign workers in Japan surpassed 1 million for the first time last year, as the labour-strapped country struggles to...
Kabul: Afghanistan has announced fresh initiatives to bring more women into the army, weeks after the country's first female pilot sparked a national...
Islamabad: An international group of psychiatrists called on Pakistan yesterday not to execute a prisoner suffering from schizophrenia, days before his temporary stay...
Sydney: Two people have died after a light plane nosedived into a river in front of thousands of horrified spectators at an air...
Karachi: PAKISTAN'S Sindh province has banned children under 14 from working, becoming the third region to limit child labour in a country where...
Singapore: Nine Singapore armoured troop carriers impounded by Hong Kong while in transit from military exercises in Taiwan are on their way back...
Yangon: Myanmar's Union Election Commission will set up 2,000 polling stations for the country's by-elections scheduled for April 1, the commission said yesterday....
Karachi: Pakistan has arrested 60 Indian fishermen after they strayed into its waters, an official said yesterday. The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) made...
Thiruvananthapuram: Police are trying to unravel the mystery behind the death of a 30-year-old Russian man in the security hold area of Thiruvananthapuram...
Dhaka: Bangladeshis working abroad remitted home $94.98 billion between 2010 and 2016, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says. "Bangladesh sent 757,731 overseas workers, including...
Kathmandu: A 67-year-old Nepali woman honoured with one of India's mostprestigious awards for freeing thousands of girls from sexual slavery said yesterday it...
New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi yesterday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming to fight corruption but aligning with a "corrupt"...
Beijing: China's plan to get rid of its massive corn stockpile by using it as raw material for its fledgling biogradeable plastics industry...
New DELHI: India's top court yesterday rejected a petition seeking a nationwide ban on cow slaughter, a flashpoint issue for Hindus who consider...
