World / Asia

Seoul: North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast on Sunday, ahead of planned military drills by South...

UNITED NATIONS: China underscored its commitment on Saturday to its claim to Taiwan, telling world leaders that anyone who gets in the way...

KHARKIV: A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said on Saturday that they...

MANILA: The Philippines' disaster agency said on Saturday it was on high alert as a tropical storm was expected to bring heavy rainfall...

Manila: The Philippines is talking to Russia about buying fuel and other key commodities because the country’s national interest overrides potential concerns over...

SIHANOUKVILLE: The list of survivors from a boat that sank near a Cambodian island increased on Saturday to 30 of the 41 passengers...

Lucknow, India: Hazardous weather killed at least 36 people in northern India over the past 24 hours, including 12 who died after being...

Tokyo: A typhoon lashed central Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, killing two and leaving tens of thousands of households...

KABUL, Afghanistan: A car bomb went off Friday as worshippers were leaving a Kabul mosque, killing at least seven people and wounding 41,...

NEW YORK: Senior diplomats from the United States and China began a meeting on Friday with tensions high after a visit to Taiwan...

HOBART, Australia: Two more whales died Friday in Australia after a handful that had been refloated a day earlier stranded themselves again. About...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong said it will scrap its controversial COVID-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from Sept. 26, more than 2.5...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has deployed thousands of additional doctors and paramedics in the country's worst flood-hit province to contain the spread of diseases that...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities will formally hold talks with international creditors on Friday to start the process of restructuring billions of dollars of...

GURUGRAM, India: Authorities in a suburb of the Indian capital where many companies have offices and executives have their homes, ordered schools to...

Thailand will end a nationwide state of emergency declared in the wake of Covid outbreak after the Southeast Asian nation downgraded the virus...

NEW YORK: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday his country will ease COVID-19 border control requirements next month, a key step...

HONG KONG: Beijing has sent a team of regulatory officials to Hong Kong to assist the US audit watchdog with onsite audit inspections...