World / Asia

Yangon: Myanmar is preparing to enter the global durian market, with plans to start exports between 2026 and 2027, Kyaw Min, chairman of...

Tokyo: Shiina Ito has had fewer Chinese customers at her Tokyo jewellery shop since Beijing issued a travel warning in the wake of...

Dhaka: A low-magnitude tremor hit Bangladesh on Saturday, the national meterological service said, a day after a powerful earthquake struck outside the capital...

Hanoi: Rescuers raced to find more than a dozen people still missing on Saturday after a week of heavy flooding in Vietnam, where...

Colombo: On a lush cricket ground outside Colombo the sharp jingling of a ball cuts through the afternoon air. Every rattle is a...

Sydney: A category 3 tropical cyclone swept across Australia's Northern Territory on Saturday, leaving thousands of residents sheltering from destructive winds of around...

Dhaka: At least five people, including a child, were killed and nearly 100 injured after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Narsingdi, east of the...

Shanghai: Chinese tech giant Huawei, in partnership with universities, unveiled and open-sourced an innovative AI technology on Friday, designed to dramatically boost the...

KualaLumpur: Greenpeace called for an investigation on Friday to determine what had caused a river in Malaysia near now-suspended rare earths and tin...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's labor productivity per hour worked grew 3.8 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, according to official data. The...

Manila:The Philippines has fired the opening shot in its bid to become a major player in global aquaculture with the inauguration of the...

Dhaka: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS),...

Dhaka: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no immediate reports of casualties. The quake struck...

Kathmandu: A curfew was in force Thursday in a Nepalese town following clashes between young activists and loyalists of the former ruling party...

Seoul: A South Korean ferry ran aground after the helmsman became distracted by his mobile phone, a member of the coast guard told...

Jakarta: Hundreds of Indonesians were staying in temporary shelters Thursday after a volcano on the main island of Java erupted, with officials evacuating...

Manila: A Philippine court on Thursday sentenced Alice Guo, a Chinese national who became a mayor while masquerading as a Filipina, and seven...

Surabaya, Indonesia: A volcano on Indonesia's main island of Java erupted on Wednesday, throwing ash and gas kilometres into the sky and forcing...