World / Asia

File photo of a Pakistani flag on a mast as paramilitary Frontier Corps soldiers talk while guarding. Reuters    Rawalpindi, Pakistan: Pakistan's military on...

  Beijing: The Canadian government will open seven additional visa application centres in China to help serve a growing number of Chinese tourists who...

Health workers fumigate the area to eradicate mosquitoes that spread diseases such as Aedes aegypti, Zika virus and other dangerous diseases or viruses...

  Naypyidaw, Myanmar: Delegates from one of Myanmar's most heavily armed ethnic groups stormed out of peace talks on Thursday in an early blow...

Labourers work at the construction site of a metro rail station in Kolkata, India August 31, 2016. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)   By Rajesh Kumar...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (C) speaks to overseas Filipino workers (OFW) during the welcoming of repatriated OFWs from Saudi Arabia at the Manila...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a National Heroes Day commemoration at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery) in Taguig city, Metro...

FILE PHOTO - Bou Rachana, the widow of Kem Ley, an anti-government figure and the head of a grassroots advocacy group, "Khmer for...

Colombo: The Maldives government said Wednesday it was seeking the arrest of former president Mohamed Nasheed for failing to return to the archipelago...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) gestures as India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj looks on during their joint news conference in...

Filipino troops carry dead bodies wrapped in cloths after a military operation against Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf in Sulu province, southern Philippines...

Kyrgyz police officers gather outside the Chinese embassy in Bishkek on August 30, 2016. AFP / Vyacheslav OSELEDKO Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: A van driven...

Soldiers carry onto a C130 military plane the caskets of their comrades killed after a battle against Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf in...

    Manila: A Philippine businessman and his wife were shot dead after the police chief branded him a drug lord, authorities said Tuesday, fuelling...

Bangladeshi activists who fought in the 1971 war shout slogans as they celebrate outside The Supreme Court in Dhaka on August 30, 2016,...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (L) and Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar answer reporters' questions during a joint news conference at the Pentagon...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. AFP     TOKYO: Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe edged above 60 percent for the first time in...

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon (R) greets the audience upon arrival with his wife Ban Soon-taek (2nd R) and Ho Kwon...