Hong Kong - Hong Kong on Thursday confirmed it had plunged into its first recession since the global financial crisis as months of...
Hong Kong - Hong Kong on Thursday confirmed it had plunged into its first recession since the global financial crisis as months of...
KABUL, Afghan women have no choice but to hope the Taliban respect their rights for the sake of peace, said Fauzia Kofi, the...
TOKYO, Crabs, melons, mangoes, even humble potatoes and corn, have proved politically treacherous in Japan this past week, with two cabinet ministers forced...
Taipei, Police in Taiwan have been ordered by a court to pay compensation to a group of protesters who were injured during clashes...
Islamabad, At least 65 people were killed and dozens wounded after a passenger train erupted in flames in central Pakistan on Thursday, a...
Tokyo: A fire tore through Japan's World Heritage-listed Shuri Castle on Thursday, reducing the main hall of the more than 500-year-old landmark to...
SEOUL, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent condolences over the passing of the mother of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Moon's...
MULTAN, Pakistan - A massive fire caused by a cooking gas stove erupted on Thursday on a train traveling in Pakistan's eastern Punjab...
MUMBAI: Facebook is failing to rein in a "tsunami" of hate posts inflaming ethnic tensions in India's Assam state, campaign group Avaaz said...
Malaysia is trying to overcome its reliance on low-skilled foreign workers as it tries to move up the economic ladder. But that’s hurting...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent much of his first term laying the groundwork to transform India into a nation that is both attractive...
Singapore-based AirCarbon Pte launched the world’s first blockchain-based carbon trading exchange, which will allow airlines and other corporate buyers to buy and sell...
Bangkok - Thailand's king has sacked four royal guards, two of them for "adultery", in a fresh wave of palace purges a week...
Chennai: The body of two-year-old boy Sujith Wilson, who was trapped in an abandoned borewell in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli district, was taken out...
Islamabad: Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is "critically unwell", his doctor said Tuesday, days after the three-time leader now serving a prison...
Tokyo, Japan's Sadako Ogata, the first woman to head the UN's refugee agency UNHCR, has died at the age of 92, Japan's foreign...
Melbourne - Dozens of protesters were arrested and several people injured Tuesday when police and demonstrators clashed outside an international mining conference in...
Srinagar, India - A group of European Parliament members has arrived in disputed Kashmir, the first foreign delegation to travel to the region...
