World / Asia

Sydney: Elon Musk's X on Friday lost a legal bid to avoid a US$417,000 fine levelled by Australia's online watchdog, which has accused...

HANOI, Vietnam: More than a dozen tigers were incinerated after the animals contracted bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam, officials said....

Taipei: Workers removed felled trees and swept up shattered glass in southern Taiwan on Friday as Typhoon Krathon was downgraded to a tropical...

Tokyo: Japan will sweep regional airports for more unexploded ordnance after a bomb dropped by the United States in World War II blew...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's new president on Thursday urged the IMF to consider "alternative means" to continue with a $2.9 billion bailout that aided...

Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Typhoon Krathon blasted into Taiwan on Thursday, bringing mudslides, flooding and destructive winds to the shuttered island where at least two...

Lan Sak, Thailand: Weeping parents laid flowers and toys on the coffins of 20 children killed in a Thai school bus inferno, along...

Stockholm: Palestinian activist Issa Amro on Thursday accepted the Right Livelihood prize -- considered by some an alternative Nobel -- for his "nonviolent...

Zurich: Three five-year-old boys wounded in a stabbing attack on a group of children in Zurich are no longer in mortal danger, prosecutors...

Manila: Philippine budget carrier Cebu Pacific signed an agreement on Wednesday to buy up to 152 Airbus planes worth $24 billion in a...

Manila: A rumbling volcano south of the Philippine capital erupted in a cocktail of ash and steam on Wednesday, prompting public health warnings...

Manila: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Wednesday signed into law a measure that imposes a 12 percent value-added tax on foreign-based firms providing...

Tokyo: New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said after meeting the nation's central bank governor on Wednesday that the environment was not right...

Bangkok: Grieving families wept as they offered prayers on Wednesday for 23 children and their teachers killed in a horrifying Thai school bus...

Seoul: Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it was planning to cut jobs in some of its Asian operations, after a report that one in...

Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Taiwan shut down schools and closed its financial markets on Wednesday as Typhoon Krathon pounded its south and east with torrential...

New Delhi: A private helicopter crashed in western India on Wednesday, killing three people on board, a fire official said. The chopper burst...

Bangkok: Rescuers pulled children's bodies from the charred wreckage of a Thai school bus Tuesday after an accident turned the vehicle into an...