KATHMANDU, Nepal: Nepal's government has extended the work of a commission investigating deaths and abuses during a decade-long communist insurgency by one year...
KATHMANDU, Nepal: Nepal's government has extended the work of a commission investigating deaths and abuses during a decade-long communist insurgency by one year...
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: U.S. defence firm Lockheed Martin wants to push ahead with plans to move production of its F-16 combat jets to India,...
BERAGAMA, Sri Lanka: T hese days, Vimalabudhi Thero, head monk at the Beragama village Buddhist temple, is consumed more by worldly concerns than ...
With golf long regarded as a stern measure of character and a natural setting for deal-making, U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime...
Kuala Lumpur: The bodies of six passengers believed to be from a boat which capsized in rough seas off Malaysia have been found,...
SEOUL: South Korea’s presidential Blue House said on Thursday that impeached President Park Geun-hye will soon allow herself to be interrogated -- but...
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines: Philippine troops clashed with communist rebels on Wednesday, seizing weapons and materiel in the southern province of Zamboanga, the military...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Six members of the International Committee of the Red Cross were killed allegedly by IS militants in northern Afghanistan’s Jawzjan province...
Yangon: Anti-Rohingya protesters gathered at a Yangon port on Thursday to meet a Malaysian ship carrying aid for thousands of refugees from the...
Islamabad: A Pakistani activist abducted last month has broken his silence on his weeks-long disappearance, but is refusing to point fingers in a...
Beijing: Chinese police have rescued 32 Vietnamese women who were sold as brides to Chinese farmers, authorities said Thursday, in an operation aimed...
Stockholm: A wave of suicides among teenage Afghan migrants in Sweden after it introduced stricter asylum rules has sparked concern among refugee workers...
In his televised annual address to the nation on January 30, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev laid out the third stage of Kazakhstan’s modernisation...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir: A Hindu nationalist political party has launched a systematic campaign calling for the expulsion of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya refugees...
GENEVA: The testimony of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been described as "absolutely horrendous" and "shocking" by a top...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations...
KABUL: Islamic State claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a suicide attack that killed at least 22 people outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court. The bomber,...
Beijing: China has established a single network to monitor air pollution levels across the country, as the government attempts to control the spread...
