World / Asia

Thailand to begin building late king's funeral pyre next year 21 Nov 2016 - 11:01 am

BANGKOK: Thailand will begin building the funeral pyre for late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died last month at the age of 88, next...

S. Korea, Japan to sign Intel-Sharing pact 21 Nov 2016 - 10:57 am

Seoul: South Korea and Japan plan to sign a military intelligence-sharing pact this week to better counter mounting threats from North Korea, South...

India train disaster toll rises to 142, more dead feared 21 Nov 2016 - 09:53 am

Pukhrayan, India: The death toll from India's rail disaster rose to 142 on Monday after workers toiled through the night removing victims from...

India crash raises concerns of underinvestment in railway as toll hits 133 21 Nov 2016 - 08:42 am

PUKHRAYAN, India/NEW DELHI: Indian rescue workers picked their way through the last of the mangled carriages of a derailed train on Monday to...

Fed-up MH370 families to hunt for debris in Madagascar 21 Nov 2016 - 08:32 am

Kuala Lumpur: Relatives of MH370 passengers will travel to Madagascar next month in hopes of re-kindling efforts to find and recover seaborne debris...

Taiwan says sees exchange with China's leader in APEC as positive 21 Nov 2016 - 08:18 am

TAIPEI: A brief exchange between representatives from Taiwan and China at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting is a "positive" development for...

Stop the sprawl, teach slum dwellers to build skywards: leading Pakistani architect 20 Nov 2016 - 05:17 pm

LONDON: Architects and planners in rapidly growing cities must work with slum dwellers to build skywards and create high-rise, self-built housing blocks, a...

Photos: Traditional cockfight in Pakistan 20 Nov 2016 - 04:36 pm

Cockfight, a popular game in Pakistan, is a blood sport between two roosters which are specially bred birds, conditioned for increased stamina and...

Worst train disasters of the past two decades 20 Nov 2016 - 03:25 pm

Paris: An express train derailed in northern India early Sunday, killing over 100 people. Here is a list of the five deadliest rail...

Train derails in north India, killing 104; many trapped 20 Nov 2016 - 02:20 pm

PUKHRAYAN, India: At least 104 people were killed when 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India...

Five ways Indians are dodging 'black money' crackdown 20 Nov 2016 - 12:15 pm

New Delhi: From deploying 'cash coolies' to buying Rolex watches, Indians have found unique ways to dodge the government's surprise move to withdraw...

S.Korea prosecutors say President Park was accomplice in corruption scandal 20 Nov 2016 - 12:02 pm

SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday that they believed President Park Geun-hye was an accomplice in a corruption scandal that has rocked...

Two dead in fighting in Myanmar town on China border 20 Nov 2016 - 11:42 am

Yangon: Two civilians were killed on Sunday when fighting broke out in a northern Myanmar town on the border with China, a region...

Over 100 killed as Indian train derails 20 Nov 2016 - 11:25 am

Lucknow, India: An Indian express train derailed early Sunday, killing over 100 people in one of the country's worst rail disasters in years,...

India train accident death toll rises to 91: police 20 Nov 2016 - 09:35 am

Lucknow, India: At least 91 people were killed and scores injured after a passenger train derailed in northern India on Sunday, police said,...

Tidal power developers bet on sea change in Indonesia renewables sector 20 Nov 2016 - 08:11 am

JAKARTA: A well-connected Indonesian marine renewable energy company and OpenHydro, a unit of French state-owned naval defence company DCNS, aim to be the...