UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar authorities to end violence against the majority-Buddhist country’s...
UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar authorities to end violence against the majority-Buddhist country’s...
Yangon: Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address the crisis engulfing Rakhine state next week, in her first speech since scores were...
Colombo: Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney Wednesday raised fresh fears for the safety of her client, former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, after an...
Singapore: Divers Wednesday recovered the bodies of two seamen who went missing after their dredger collided with a tanker off Singapore and rescuers...
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Seven bodies believed to be those of Rohingya Muslims washed ashore in Bangladesh on Wednesday, officials said, highlighting the risks...
Ukhia, Bangladesh: The lost Rohingya boy made the journey from Myanmar alone, following strangers from other villages across rivers and jungle until they...
YANGON: Myanmar's national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing outrage over ethnic violence that has forced about 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to...
Tokyo: A Japanese funeral parlour is set to offer relatives the chance to pay their final respects to deceased loved ones without leaving...
Seoul: North Korea vowed Wednesday to accelerate its weapons programmes in response to the "evil" sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council following...
Singapore: Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament, was declared elected as Singapore's first woman president on Wednesday, after the returning officer announced...
Manila: At least four people died and six were missing after a major storm caused flooding in and around Manila on Tuesday, forcing...
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Tuesday sacked a minister who had threatened to split his coalition government, three weeks after another was...
Beijing: China said Tuesday it backs the Myanmar government's efforts to "uphold peace and stability" in Rakhine state, where a military crackdown has...
GENEVA: A senior UN human rights official on Monday said Myanmar's security operation in Rakhine state "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing"....
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: The United Nations Security Council will hold an urgent meeting to discuss violence churning through western Myanmar, after the UN's...
YANGON: Pressure mounted on Myanmar on Tuesday to end violence that has sent more than 300,000 Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, with the United...
MANILA: Police have been forced to stop conducting drug surveys and testing in the Philippine capital's biggest and most populous area after a...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is set to welcome Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak to the White House on Tuesday, a meeting expected to...
