World / Asia

Seoul: The businessman son of an infamous South Korean tycoon will be extradited from the United States on Friday to face charges of...

Doha, Qatar: Sultan Al Neyadi, an Emirati astronaut renowned for his impressive images of the Earth's significant sites from space, posted a magnificent...

Manila: A small plane has crashed on a training flight in the northern Philippines, killing an Indian student pilot and his Filipino instructor,...

Seoul: Hundreds of scouts at a massive jamboree in South Korea suffered heat exhaustion, organisers said Wednesday, as the peninsula battles a heatwave...

Beijing: Chinese children and teens will be cut off from accessing the internet at night and have their smartphone use curbed under new...

Fangshan, China: Deadly rains that pummelled China's capital in recent days were the heaviest since records began 140 years ago, Beijing's weather service...

Islamabad: Pakistan's headline inflation eased for the second month in a row in July, government data released Tuesday showed, but a fuel price...

Quetta, Pakistan: Two policemen were shot dead on Tuesday while guarding a polio vaccination team in southwest Pakistan, officials said, the latest deaths...

Tokyo: A powerful typhoon sweeping towards southern Japan on Tuesday triggered the cancellation of hundreds of flights, with officials urging hundreds of thousands...

Beijing: A Chinesezoohas been forced to deny that its sun bear is actually a human in a costume, after footage of one standing...

Mentougou, China: At least 11 people are dead and 27 missing after heavy rains lashed Beijing, state media said Tuesday, in downpours that...

Yangon: JailedMyanmarcivilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been pardoned in five criminal cases, though she still faces 14 others, state media said...

Over a six-week period this spring, the Indonesian nongovernmental organization Sungai Watch collected more than 40 tons, or 80,000 pounds, of trash from...

New Delhi: At least four people were killed when a police officer of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) opened fire indiscriminately inside a...

Beijing: China imposed restrictions Monday on exports of long-range civilian drones, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern that drones might be converted...

Manila: The European Union and the Philippines will restart negotiations on a free-trade agreement as they seek to accelerate "a new era of...

Hong Kong: A French man is believed to have fallen to his death from a high-rise residential building in Hong Kong last week,...

Tokyo: A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a man to 23 years in jail after finding him guilty of attempted murder and starting...