DAVOS, Switzerland: Police in the Swiss capital of Bern prevented a pro-Tibet protester from setting himself on fire Sunday on the sidelines of...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Police in the Swiss capital of Bern prevented a pro-Tibet protester from setting himself on fire Sunday on the sidelines of...
Bangkok: Thailand faces more hardship from unseasonable floods that have killed 40 people in its south, with more rain expected in the major...
San Francisco: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging...
Seoul: The number of unemployed people in South Korea surpassed the one million mark in 2016, Statistics Korea said yesterday. It is the...
Seoul: Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, who is expected to run for president of South Korea, said yesterday it is appropriate for the...
Taipei: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday her trip to Central American allies and transit stops in the United States had elevated the...
Seoul: South Korean investigators said yesterday they will come to a decision within 24 hours on whether to arrest Samsung Vice-Chairman Lee Jae-yong....
Tokyo: Japan's space agency yesterday aborted a mission to use a mini-rocket to send a satellite into orbit after the spacecraft stopped sending...
Kabul:The Afghan Eduction Ministry yesterday said the Islamic State terror group has kidnapped 14 teachers from Nangarhar province. The ministry said the incident...
Jalalabad: At least seven civilians, including a women and three children, were killed when their truck hit a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan...
Islamabad: At least 135 Pakistani fishermen are currently detained in Indian jails, the country’s Foreign Office said in its report to the Supreme...
Beijing: China has appointed a new governor of Tibet, one of the country’s most politically sensitive regions, state news agency Xinhua reported yesterday....
Kolkata: A stampede in eastern India killed six women yesterday as devotees returning from a religious festival rushed to get onto a jetty,...
Colombo: Sri Lanka is building a mega port city project in its capital Colombo that will transform the country into an international financial...
Sydney: A Japanese ship has been caught with a slaughtered whale in the Antarctic in defiance of an international court decision against Tokyo's...
Myanmar: Muslim villagers in western Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state said yesterday that they hope positive change will result from a UN envoy's visit...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India’s Supreme Court has asked seven states why land bought for industry is lying idle, raising questions about the benefit of...
LONDON: More than 9,400 undocumented Afghans have returned home from Iran and Pakistan in the first week of 2017, raising concerns over how...
