World / Asia

Hong Kong: Hong Kong's weather observatory raised its typhoon alert to the highest level at 8:15 pm (1215 GMT) on Friday over Super...

BANGKOK: Thailand’s king on Friday reduced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's eight-year prison term to a single year following the divisive politician's return...

NEW DELHI: India’s fractured opposition parties decided on Friday to jointly contest the 2024 national elections in their bid to unseat Prime Minister...

Manila: Teenagers from a crowded Manila slum shoot hoops on a court bearing the shiny logo of the FIBA World Cup, the tournament...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's police force said on Friday it had sacked an officer who entertained protesters with an impromptu piano performance after they...

Shanghai lowered mortgage requirements for some homebuyers following central government guidance, loosening barriers for property ownership in one of the country’s most prized...

Manila: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Friday imposed a price cap on rice, the national staple cereal, blaming "cartels" and hoarders for surging...

Colombo: Inflation in crisis-hit Sri Lanka eased to 4.0 percent in August, the lowest since before last year's unprecedented financial crisis, official figures...

India’s weakest monsoon rains in about a century are becoming the biggest risk for the fast growing economy as food prices rise and...

Hong Kong: Tens of millions of people in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other southern Chinese megacities sheltered indoors Friday as Super Typhoon Saola...

Tokyo: Japan's summer this year was the country's hottest since records began in 1898, the weather agency said Friday. "Average temperatures in Japan...

Islamabad: Nine soldiers were killed in a restive western region of Pakistan on Thursday after a suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into their...

Brussels: China's President Xi Jinping is not expected to attend the G20 summit in India next week and will send Premier Li Qiang...

Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has submitted a petition seeking a royal pardon from King Maha Vajiralongkorn for eight years of jail term...

BANGKOK: Myanmar’s Supreme Court has declined to hear special appeals from the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her convictions in...

Doha, Qatar: Five doctors who saved the life of a two-year-old girl onboard a flight during a mid-air medical emergency are being hailed...

The Philippines doesn’t recognize China’s latest version of a standard map showing Beijing’s expansive claims in the South China Sea, according to the...

Two of China’s biggest cities lowered mortgage requirements for some homebuyers following central government guidance, fanning expectations that more will follow suit to...