TOKYO: A robot has signed on as the newest staff member at a store in Japan, taking on the job of ensuring customers...
TOKYO: A robot has signed on as the newest staff member at a store in Japan, taking on the job of ensuring customers...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Top Glove said fresh coronavirus-related curbs in an area where its factories are located will affect a quarter of its...
SYDNEY: Australian authorities conducted mass tests on Tuesday and about 4,000 people were confined to quarantine in the hope of stifling a new...
BEIJING: A British diplomat is being praised for saving a drowning woman in southwestern China. Stephen Ellison jumped into a stream to rescue...
SEOUL: South Korea will impose stricter social distancing rules for the greater Seoul area a month after easing them, officials said on Tuesday,...
KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistan's recorded its highest number of daily COVID-19 infections since July on each of the last four days as a...
NEW DELHI: The latest surge of coronavirus infections in the Indian capital, that has swamped its intensive care wards and killed hundreds of...
Dubai: The government of Pakistan has closed a $370 million syndicated loan comprising a conventional and Islamic tranche, Dubai's biggest bank Emirates NBD...
Hanoi: Storm Vamco barrelled into Vietnam on Sunday, damaging buildings and injuring at least five people after wreaking devastation in the Philippines. The...
Taipei: Alleged censorship of Taiwan on the World Health Organization's Facebook page inspired some creative trolling Thursday, with special characters and foreign scripts...
NEW DELHI: Soumitra Chatterjee, the legendary Indian actor with more than 200 movies to his name and famed for his work with Oscar-winning...
Melbourne: Australia's triumph in reining in COVID-19 while infections surge in many parts of the world is making the country a "victim of...
Hanoi: Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had...
MANILA: The death toll from the deadliest cyclone to hit the Philippines this year has climbed to 67, with 12 people still missing,...
MOSCOW: Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov said on Saturday he had stepped down as acting president of the Central Asian nation as he...
New Delhi: Fear of the coronavirus, mixed with chronic pollution, has spoiled the party for hundreds of millions of Indians celebrating the biggest...
Sydney: Climate change is already buffeting Australia with extreme bushfires, droughts and cyclones, and the fossil-fuel reliant country should brace for worse to...
MOSCOW/SEOUL: South Korea's GL Rapha will make more than 150 million doses of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine per year, Russia's sovereign wealth fund...
