BEIJING: Seven miners remain trapped after a coal mine flooded in eastern China. Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday that 21 miners were working...
BEIJING: Seven miners remain trapped after a coal mine flooded in eastern China. Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday that 21 miners were working...
KARACHI, Pakistan: With Pakistan’s popular army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif retiring next week, the capital Islamabad has become the playing field for a...
Phnom Penh: Cambodia's UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge leaders on Wednesday for crimes against humanity, in a...
HERAT, Afghanistan: It is early morning in a saffron field outside the western Afghan city of Herat and dozens of women are harvesting...
Seoul: Japan and South Korea signed a controversial agreement on Wednesday to share defence intelligence on North Korea, despite protests from opposition parties...
Serpentine queues spilling from banks. Parents worried that they can’t provide for their families. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing to Indians to bear...
LONDON: A U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis...
NEW DELHI: India may soon relax conditions for cash withdrawals for weddings, a top government official said on Tuesday, the day after the...
Carnatic vocalist, playback singer and composer Mangalamapalli Balamuralikrishna died on Tuesday, reports The Hindu. He was 86 and is survived by his wife,...
MATSUDO, Japan: Gursewak Singh composed his first letter to Japan’s justice minister when he was 10 years old. Almost seven years later, he...
Srinagar, India: India said three of its soldiers were killed Tuesday on the de facto border in disputed Kashmir and blamed Pakistani troops....
TOKYO: On a morning in mid-September, Utinan Won hugged his mother and then watched as she passed through departures at Tokyo’s Narita airport...
Hanoi: Power-hungry Vietnam scrapped plans for two multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants on Tuesday, citing environmental and financial reasons after the cost of...
Beijing: At least 3,000 people have fled fighting in northern Myanmar into China, Beijing said Tuesday, as the death toll from clashes between...
New Delhi: In an emotional speech before BJP MPs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday vehemently defended the demonetisation, saying it was done...
Dhaka: Uber launched its on-demand car ride services in the perennially jammed Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Tuesday, saying it would help reduce congestion...
Tokyo: A 28-year-old man died in Japan after choking on a rice ball at a speed-eating contest, an event organiser said Tuesday. The...
Hanoi: The United Nations' human rights watchdog called on Vietnam Tuesday to release three rights activists who were recently detained and investigate allegations...
