World / Asia

JAKARTA: Indonesia is set to approve a law allowing authorities to jail for up to 15 years citizens coming home after joining militant...

Astana, Kazakhstan: Internet providers in Kazakhstan have blocked access to the Washington-based Foreign Policy news website after it gave an unflattering review of...

Tokyo: Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market -- the world's biggest -- will be moved to a new location, the city's top official confirmed...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: At least two navy officers were killed and three others wounded when armed gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on them in...

Kabul: Gunmen have killed eight Afghan guards working at the largest American base in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, as the US appears set...

Yangon: A self-proclaimed sorcerer was sentenced to death by a Yangon court on Tuesday for killing three children in an exorcism ritual he...

MARAWI CITY, Philippines: Philippine aircraft bombed rebel positions and ground troops launched a renewed push against Islamist militants holed up in a southern...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's administration appears ready to harden its approach toward Pakistan to crack down on Pakistan-based militants launching attacks in neighboring...

Seoul: The tour agency that took US student Otto Warmbier to Pyongyang said Tuesday it would stop taking Americans to the reclusive state...

New Delhi:  The first flight from Kabul to Delhi, establishing air freight corridor between the two countries, landed here yesterday with the dedicated...

New Delhi:  Playing the Dalit card, the BJP yesterday threw a surprise by nominating Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind as the NDA choice...

Darjeeling:  Terming as "priority" the demand for a separate Gorkhaland state, Jana Andolan Party chief and former Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) spokesperson Harka...

YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar military said Sunday it had retrieved the black box of a military plane which crashed into the sea off the...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: A Pakistani woman threw her three children into a deep well in the country’s central Punjab province after her husband did...

Kabul: At least eleven ISIS militants were killed during the counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarahr province. A...

Pattani, Thailand: Six Thai soldiers were killed and four injured when a roadside bomb ripped their patrol truck apart in the insurgency-plagued south...

Tokyo: A probe into the crash between a US navy destroyer and a Philippine-flagged cargo ship was under way Monday, as the names...

Kabul: An American citizen who is living in Afghanistan was kidnapped on his way to work on Sunday, Kabul police said. The kidnapping...