YANGON: Two armed ethnic groups in Myanmar have agreed to sign a ceasefire with the government, state media reported on Wednesday, as leader...
YANGON: Two armed ethnic groups in Myanmar have agreed to sign a ceasefire with the government, state media reported on Wednesday, as leader...
Canberra, A group of scientists found a small population of fish that "walk" along the seabed off Australia's south coast in Tasmania, a...
MANILA, The number of people displaced by an erupting Philippine volcano soared to more than 61,000 by Wednesday, the Southeast Asian country’s disaster...
JAKARTA, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis saw Indonesian troops drink snake blood, roll in glass, break bricks with their heads, walk on fire,...
ALMATY: A Dutch court has lifted a freeze on Kazakh sovereign fund's assets worth $22 billion, the Central Asian nation's Justice Ministry said...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Attackers set off a car bomb near the office of the Save the Children aid agency in the eastern Afghan city...
BEIJING: The European Union's Ambassador to China said on Wednesday he expects Chinese authorities to immediately release Swedish citizen and Hong Kong-based bookseller...
Islamabad: Pakistani police Tuesday arrested the key suspect accused of raping and murdering a young girl in a case that enraged the country...
Tokyo: Japan's weather officials say a volcano in Gunma Prefecture, north of the Japanese capital Tokyo, erupted on Tuesday morning. At almost the...
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Bangladesh security forces have detained a Rohingya leader during a sweep in a refugee camp, police said Tuesday, as tension...
HONG KONG, Hong Kong student protest leader Joshua Wong was released on bail on Tuesday, less than a week after he was jailed...
Seoul, South Korea is to make organising a suicide pact a criminal offence, officials said Tuesday, as the government seeks to reduce one...
Yangon: Myanmar blamed Bangladesh on Tuesday for delays to a huge repatriation programme for Rohingya refugees, as the deadline passed for starting the...
Yangon, A court will decide whether to bail two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's secrecy law on February 1, their lawyer said...
Singapore, Over 100 baby turtles have hatched on a Singapore beach before being released into the sea, authorities said Tuesday, in a boost...
Jakarta, Indonesia's capital Jakarta was rocked by a strong earthquake on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of office buildings but there was no immediate...
Sydney: Dozens of refugees held for years in Australia's remote Pacific detention camps departed for resettlement in the United States on Tuesday, asylum-seeker...
Tokyo, A Japanese soldier was killed on Tuesday after a volcano erupted near a popular Japanese ski resort, sparking an avalanche that left...
