Seoul: South Korea's parliament introduced a bill yesterday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, setting the stage for a historic vote to oust the...
Seoul: South Korea's parliament introduced a bill yesterday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, setting the stage for a historic vote to oust the...
Dhaka: Bangladesh's elite security force yesterday arrested five suspected members of a banned Islamist extremist outfit who it said were planning to break...
Beijing: China should "significantly" increase military spending and build more nuclear weapons as a response to US President-elect Donald Trump, an editorial in...
Meureudu: Aftershocks rattled the survivors of a devastating Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 100 people, as officials urgently appealed yesterday for medicine...
Manila: The Philippine defence secretary said yesterday it's highly unlikely his country will allow the US military to use it as a springboard...
Yangon: At least 11 people have died this month in northern Myanmar in escalating clashes between security forces and armed insurgents that have...
Noted Dalit scholar Dr Pradeepan Pampirikunnu has died, aged 47. He had met with a motor accident few days ago and had been...
TOKYO: At first glance, the Tsukamoto kindergarten looks like any other school in Japan, but its unique curriculum is reminiscent of pre-war Japan....
Saddha Batolni , Pakistan: A Pakistani aircraft carrying 47 people issued a Mayday call before losing radar contact and crashing into a mountain,...
GUG, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani military helicopters on Thursday ferried remains of plane crash victims to the capital, Islamabad, as aviation authorities said...
Beijing: A man who wrote a social media post critical of China's decades-old land reform policies was sentenced to a year in prison,...
New Delhi: "To me, she was a goddess," said party worker Shankar as he joined a sea of mourners bidding farewell to Jayalalithaa...
Dhaka: Bangladesh's elite security force on Thursday arrested five suspected members of a banned Islamist extremist outfit who it said were planning to...
YANGON, Myanmar: The bodies of nine police officers have been recovered from a town along Myanmar's northeastern border, with fighting between the military...
Kabul: A foreigner militant recruiting for ISIS group was killed during an operation of the Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province. According...
KARACHI, Pakistan: Pakistani authorities investigating a plane crash that killed all 48 passengers on Wednesday have begun DNA testing on the bodies recovered...
BEIJING: A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China on Thursday. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the temblor...
BEIJING: The death toll from the latest gas explosion to hit a coal mine in China has risen to 11, bringing the total...