Tokyo: Japan's new prime minister will be formally elected by parliament on October 1 following next week's leadership contest, a ruling party official...
Tokyo: Japan's new prime minister will be formally elected by parliament on October 1 following next week's leadership contest, a ruling party official...
Spring Valley, Sri Lanka: Whoever Sri Lanka's next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn't expecting much to change in her daily struggle to feed...
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Thousands of activists and leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday rallied in the nation’s capital to demand a...
Washington: The United States said on Monday it backed Manila's freedom of navigation in the South China Sea after a Philippine ship left...
Dubai: The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said on Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since...
Beijing: Some 215.92 million passenger trips were handled by China's transportation sectors on Sunday, the first day of the three-day holiday for the...
Manila: The Philippines insisted on Monday that it had not given up a South China Sea reef, two days after it pulled out...
Islamabad: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan granted bail Monday to 10 lawmakers from jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party, an AFP journalist...
Osaka, Japan: Japan celebrated on Monday the record-breaking Emmy Awards triumph of "Shogun", although many confessed not having watched the series about the...
Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's main newspaper in the northern port of Jaffna endured bullets and bombings during a decades-long Tamil separatist war,...
Tokyo: The number of people in Japan aged 65 or older hit a record high of 36.25 million this year, government data shows,...
Seoul: A trash balloon from North Korea landed on a Seoul building rooftop and caused a fire, a local fire department said Monday,...
Shangha: Tens of millions of people in Shanghai and across China's densely populated east coast hunkered indoors Monday as the strongest typhoon to...
Hanoi: Typhoon Yagi caused $1.6 billion in economic losses in Vietnam, state media said Monday, as the UN's World Food Programme said the...
Colombo: Sri Lanka's economic growth slowed, government data showed Sunday, days ahead of the first presidential elections since an unprecedented financial meltdown in...
Bago, Myanmar: Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country's death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge...
Yangon: The death toll in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has jumped to 113 and more than 320,000 people have been...
Chon Buri, Thailand: The morning sunlight bouncing off her sleek hide, Moo Deng the pygmy hippo plops to the ground in her enclosure,...
