World / Asia

New Delhi: Tens of thousands of runners braved smoggy conditions for the Delhi half marathon on Sunday despite dire health warnings from doctors...

BEIJING, China’s military on Sunday launched a website inviting the public to report leaks and fake news, as well as illegal online activities...

Dhaka: China has offered to help defuse the Rohingya crisis, Bangladesh said Saturday, following meetings with Beijing's top diplomat that Dhaka hopes will...

Quetta, Pakistan, The bullet-riddled bodies of five Pakistani migrants believed headed for Europe via Iran were found on Saturday in southwest Pakistan, in...

Quetta, Pakistan: The bullet-riddled bodies of five Pakistani migrants believed headed for Europe via Iran were found on Saturday in southwest Pakistan, in...

GENEVA: More than 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees have drowned in shipwrecks and boat incidents since the beginning of the crisis on Aug. 25,...

ANKARA: Tehran is set to receive a first shipment of humanitarian relief from Pakistan, six days after Iran was rocked by a 7.3-magnitude...

Shanghai, A senior Chinese envoy has met an aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang, the two sides said Saturday, stressing...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's police say 19 persons have been arrested following racial violence in the country's south that started over a...

Colombo: Sri Lanka deployed troops and ordered a night-time curfew in a southern town to end violent clashes between two ethnic communities, the...

Shanghai: Shanghai police have ruled out foul play and cast doubt on allegations that overwork contributed to the death of a 14-year-old Russian...

Beijing: An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale hit southwest China's Tibet Province on Saturday. The epicenter of the quake is located...

MELBOURNE, Australia’s main medical association called on Saturday for the government to allow independent doctors and other health experts to help more than...

ISLAMABAD:  Pakistani authorities issued a final warning on Friday to members of an Islamist party blocking a main road into the capital, raising...

KUALA LUMPUR: In a dimly lit shop in Kuala Lumpur, where dried fish, herbs and pickled tea leaves imported from Myanmar are on...

Beijing: Panama opened its first embassy in China on Thursday five months after cutting ties with Taiwan, which has seen its allies dwindle...

KUALA LUMPUR: W orshippers in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, are set to go green with a new initiative that aims to...

BEIJING: China denounced on Thursday a US congressional commission that accused its state media of involvement in spying and propaganda and called for...