World / Asia

Shanghai: Indian banker and New Development Bank chief (NDB) K V Kamath has said that cooperation between the five BRICS countries will be...

At least 19 passengers were killed and many others were missing as a boat carrying 40 people capsized in the Ganga river near...

WASHINGTON: The incoming U.S.  administration’s tough talk against China has set the stage for showdowns on everything from security to trade and cyberspace,...

SHANGHAI: China and Vietnam pledged on Saturday to manage their differences and safeguard peace in the South China Sea, in a joint communique...

Suva, Fiji: A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no...

Dhaka: Bangladeshi police Saturday said they have arrested an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the "masterminds" of last year's deadly siege...

SHANGHAI: A man in China's central Henan province has become the latest person reported to have died this winter from H7N9 bird flu,...

Kathmandu: Ten years after the end of Nepal’s bloody civil war, the Himalayan republic has failed to punish perpetrators of human rights abuses...

Beijing: Footage of a 92-year-old Chinese woman reportedly kept for years by her son in a pigsty has incited an online firestorm, as...

Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start consultation for verification and repatriation of refugees, said a statement of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry...

Colombo: Several districts in Sri Lanka would face severe drought conditions in the coming three weeks as very little rain was expected, the...

Colombo: Sri Lanka yesterday tightened the rules governing the around one million tuk-tuks -- rickety three-wheel taxis -- on its streets after road...

New Delhi: The replacement of Mahatma Gandhi's photographs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's in Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC)'s annual calendar and diary...

Guwahati: India’s army chief yesterday said that more "surgical strikes" would be carried out in Pakistan"if the situation warrants", local media reported. "Surgical...

Beijing: China has a range of economic, diplomatic and military options to retaliate if the US and South Korea proceed with deployment of...

Ho Chi Minh City: John Kerry began his swansong tour as US Secretary of State in Vietnam on Friday, defending Washington's 'pivot' to...

Davao, Philippines: With a visit to Philipine President Rodrigo Duterte's bedroom, having one of the world's rarest birds named in his honour and...

CHENNAI, India: For Dhanalakshmi S and her family, a small shack squeezed among scores of similar dwellings on a narrow street in the...