World / Asia

Pune:  A day after five civil rights activists were arrested in a nationwide swoop, the Pune police claimed on Wednesday that it has...

YANGON: More than 50,000 people evacuated their homes in central Myanmar on Wednesday after a dam breach flooded towns and villages and caused...

YANGON, More than 5,000 people have evacuated their homes after water from a breached dam flooded communities in central Myanmar on Wednesday and...

Pune/Hyderabad:  Police on Tuesday arrested five human rights activists and alleged Maoist sympathizers, including Left ideologue Varavara Rao, in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima...

Jakarta: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake measuring struck off Indonesia's Lombok Island on Tuesday, but it did not trigger a tsunami warning, the meteorology and...

Tokyo, North Korea still poses a "serious and imminent threat", Japan said Tuesday in its first annual defence review since tensions eased on...

GENEVA:  Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and the commander-in-chief and five generals should...

Facebook Inc. has removed accounts and pages linked to Myanmar’s top military officials as a new United Nations report accused the country’s armed...

TOKYO, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Sunday his candidacy for a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election that he is...

BEIJING: Fire tore through a hot springs hotel in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin before dawn on Saturday, killing 19 people and...

BEIJING, A ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped and killed, allegedly by a driver for the country's largest...

Jalalabad, Afghanistan, A suicide bomb blast killed at least two people Saturday outside an election commission office in the eastern Afghan city of...

Beijing,  A fire early Saturday at a hotel in China has left at least 18 people dead and 19 injured, according to state...

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh:  With a repatriation plan in tatters and funding evaporating for a million refugees with ever-growing needs, Rohingya Muslims who fled...

TRENTON:  Canadians and much of the world will stand in solidarity Saturday with "the world’s most persecuted minority” while marking the first global...

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Friday he has directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to delay a planned trip to North Korea, citing...

NEW DELHI: India and China have agreed to expand their military ties and enhance interaction to ensure peace on their common border, India...

Solo, Indonesia: An Indonesian civil servant who owed his ex-wife a large alimony has paid back some $10,000 worth of missed payments --...