A Malaysian ship carrying 2,300 tonnes of aid for tens of thousands of persecuted Rohingya Muslims arrived in Yangon where it was met...
Seoul: South Korea's finance minister said yesterday China had not taken any retaliatory measures over plans to deploy a US anti-missile system that...
Chennai: The tug of war for power in Tamil Nadu saw AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala yesterday staking her claim to form...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump will reaffirm America's commitment to its security alliance with Japan when the nation's prime minister visits the White House...
Kabul: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has put their operations "on hold" in Afghanistan following an attack that claimed the...
Some 36 countries with host Pakistan as the 37th will be taking part in Pakistan Navy’s (PN) four-day joint multinational exercise Aman-2017, which...
Jakarta: Indonesia said it had accepted an Australian apology after teaching materials deemed offensive to Jakarta led to a partial suspension of ties,...
Kathmandu: Nepal yesterday extended the mandates for two commissions tasked with probing crimes committed during the bloody civil war, hours before a deadline...
Beijing: China is to begin taking fingerprints of all foreign visitors as it steps up security on its borders, the Ministry of Public...
Beijing: Chinese police have rescued 32 Vietnamese women who were sold as brides to Chinese farmers, authorities said yesterday, in an operation aimed...
Cagayan de Oro: Communist guerrillas abducted three villagers, including a policeman, and burned construction equipment in new attacks in the Philippines yesterday and...
Manila: The Philippines' environment minister vowed not to buckle to mounting pressure yesterday from a mining sector reeling from her shutting more than...
Washington: The commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan said yestreday that the coalition had a shortfall of a "few thousands" of...
Seoul: Hundreds of South Korean artists filed a lawsuit against impeached President Park Geun-hye and two officials yesterday over a state "blacklist" of...
New Delhi: India submitted an extradition request yesterday to Britain to send back the flamboyant tycoon Vijay Mallya to face trial after he...
Karachi: India has built a “secret nuclear city”, Pakistan claimed yesterday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria made the claim during a weekly media...
Kuala Lumpur: The bodies of six passengers believed to be from a boat which capsized in rough seas off Malaysia have been found,...
