World / Asia

Bangladeshi cleric convicted for spreading Covid disinformation 17 Jan 2023 - 01:02 pm

Dhaka: A popular Islamic preacher who claimed Israel was using Covid vaccines to spy on the world's population was on Monday convicted in...

Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last two people 17 Jan 2023 - 11:54 am

KATHMANDU: Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in Nepal's second-biggest city on Tuesday to search for...

China's Lunar New Year travel offers spark of economic rebound from COVID crunch 17 Jan 2023 - 11:48 am

SHANGHAI: Urban workers crowded train stations across China's largest cities on Tuesday as the country's mass migration for Lunar New Year holidays hit...

Pakistan PM Sharif offers talks with arch-rival India 17 Jan 2023 - 10:36 am

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered his Indian counterpart talks over all outstanding issues, including disputed Kashmir, which he believes could...

Singapore expects full tourism recovery by 2024 17 Jan 2023 - 10:22 am

SINGAPORE: Singapore's international arrivals beat forecasts in 2022, paving the way for its tourism sector to recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2024, its...

Uzbekistan president sacks officials over energy crisis 16 Jan 2023 - 06:37 pm

Tashkent: Uzbekistan's president said Monday he dismissed senior officials, including the mayor of the capital Tashkent, over gas and energy shortages amid historically...

Pakistan's largest province to hold snap polls in win for former PM Khan 16 Jan 2023 - 04:18 pm

Lahore: A snap local election will be held inPakistan's most populous province, officials said, after the provincial leader, an ally of ousted Prime...

Indonesia stadium disaster negligence trial begins 16 Jan 2023 - 12:17 pm

Surabaya, Indonesia: Five Indonesian men charged with negligence leading to one of the worst stadium disasters in football history appeared in court by...

Disgruntled guest smashes car through Chinese hotel lobby 16 Jan 2023 - 11:12 am

Shanghai: A disgruntled guest rammed his sports car through a Chinese hotel's doors and drove wildly around its lobby, leaving a trail of...

Searchers find black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash 16 Jan 2023 - 10:40 am

KATHMANDU: Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing...

Hopes of survivors in Nepal plane crash 'nil' 16 Jan 2023 - 10:11 am

Pokhara, Nepal: Nepali rescue workers scoured a debris-strewn ravine Monday for more bodies from the mangled wreckage of a plane with 72 people...

Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul - police 16 Jan 2023 - 08:19 am

Kabul: A former female member ofAfghanistan's parliament has been killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Kabul, police said. Mursal Nabizada and...

China's Tencent fires more than 100 for fraud, embezzlement 16 Jan 2023 - 07:57 am

Beijing: Chinese tech giant Tencent said Monday it had fired more than a hundred employees for violating company policies, with some referred to...

China, Hong Kong resume high-speed rail link after 3 years of Covid curbs 15 Jan 2023 - 05:43 pm

HONG KONG/BEIJING: China resumed on Sunday high-speed rail services between Hong Kong and the mainland for the first time since the beginning of...

At least 40 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in nearly five years 15 Jan 2023 - 11:04 am

KATHMANDU: At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official...

At least 16 killed in Nepal air crash: Army spokesman 15 Jan 2023 - 09:57 am

KATHMANDU: At least 16 people were killed on Sunday after an aircraft crashed in western Nepal's Pokhara, an army spokesman said, as hundreds...

After G7 tour, Japan PM says East Asia could be next Ukraine 14 Jan 2023 - 07:30 pm

Washington: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday he told Western powers that East Asia could be the next Ukraine, as he...

North Korea slams UN chief over nuclear criticism 14 Jan 2023 - 06:44 pm

Seoul: North Korea slammed United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday over his recent description of Pyongyang's nuclear programmes as a "clear and...