Hanoi: Vietnam has sentenced nine drug traffickers to death for smuggling nearly half a tonne (500 kilograms) of heroin into the country from...
Hanoi: Vietnam has sentenced nine drug traffickers to death for smuggling nearly half a tonne (500 kilograms) of heroin into the country from...
TOKYO: Japan will end its only international peacekeeping mission in May amid charges that the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe covered up...
TUBAN, Indonesia: A strong earthquake shook the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Wednesday, causing people to panic and rush out of buildings....
Kuala Lumpur: US authorities plan to file criminal charges against a businessman suspected to be at the centre of a major corruption scandal...
SEOUL: A North Korean missile appeared to have exploded on Wednesday just after it was launched, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said...
SEOUL: Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye left prosecutors' offices early on Wednesday after being questioned in an investigation into a corruption scandal...
Kolkata: Indian police have arrested four suspected corpse smugglers and recovered 18 intact skeletons and other bones believed exhumed from cemeteries in a...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta leader and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte agreed on Tuesday to strengthen military ties and cooperate against cross-border criminality, including illegal...
NEW DELHI, India: A court in northern India has declared two rivers as “living entities”, complete with their own rights and values. This...
Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen launched the island's first ever home-grown submarine project Tuesday in the face of what the government says...
KUALA LUMPUR: A northeast Malaysian state has declared an emergency following an outbreak of H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. The move...
GENEVA: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has appealed for over $3 million to address the most urgent...
YANGON, Myanmar: Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Myanmar’s northern Shan State amid continued fighting between government troops and ethnic...
Bangkok: A sea turtle nicknamed "Piggy Bank" has died after complications from surgery to remove nearly 1,000 coins she swallowed during captivity, Thai...
Seoul: The row between Seoul and Beijing over the deployment of a US missile defence system has seen China overtake even former coloniser...
MOSCOW: Russia has invited the United State to talks on Afghanistan due to be held in Moscow next month, President Vladimir Putin’s special...
Beijing: Chinese police have arrested a man accused of stealing dozens of fossilised dinosaur eggs, state media said Monday, but some eggs are...
KARACHI, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced the reopening of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan after a month-long closure due to rise in...
