JAKARTA: A huge fire destroyed most of a Dutch colonial heritage site dating back to the 17th century, including a maritime museum, in...
JAKARTA: A huge fire destroyed most of a Dutch colonial heritage site dating back to the 17th century, including a maritime museum, in...
Sydney: Australia's Qantas has changed its website classification of Taiwan and Hong Kong from separate countries to Chinese territories after Chinese regulators scolded...
ISLAMABAD: More than 1,800 Pakistani Muslim clerics have issued an Islamic directive, or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings, a book due to be unveiled...
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart Donald Trump that there have been "positive changes" on the Korean peninsula, state media...
Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed to repatriate Rohingya recently displaced by an army crackdown "within two years", Dhaka said Tuesday, outlining the first...
MANILA: The office of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte sought to distance itself on Tuesday from a regulator's decision to revoke the license of...
MANILA, The Philippines’ most active volcano spewed lava that cascaded downslope and emitted ash that fell on nearby towns, state volcanologists said on...
HONG KONG: A South Korean man was formally charged on Tuesday with murdering his wife and six-year-old son at the five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel...
PARIS: India has reported an outbreak of a highly contagious bird flu virus near Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka, the World...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Monday destroyed $108 million worth of cocaine in public, seized by authorities in the port of Colombo which is...
TOKYO/BEIJING, Black smoke was billowing from the East China Sea site where a burning Iranian oil tanker sank, Japanese authorities said on Monday,...
JAKARTA: Dozens of people were seen running from the Indonesian Stock Exchange in central Jakarta on Monday, Metro TV showed, after unconfirmed reports...
New Delhi, A speeding truck ploughed into a rickshaw in eastern India killing at least 12 passengers, police said Monday. The dead were...
KAUNAS, Lithuania: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday honoured a Japanese diplomat credited with saving an estimated 6,000 Jews from almost certain...
MANILA: A magnitude-5.1 earthquake hit the Philippines on Sunday, about 40 miles west-southwest of Batangas on the island of Luzon, the U.S. Geological...
New Delhi: Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New Delhi on Sunday for the first visit by an Israeli leader to India in 15 years,...
Hong Kong, A foreign man has been arrested for the suspected murder of a woman and a boy on Sunday at the luxurious...
SYDNEY, About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano...
