Chennai, India: Efforts to bolster Indian cities against climate change and make them greener must include citizens who are being hit hard by...
Chennai, India: Efforts to bolster Indian cities against climate change and make them greener must include citizens who are being hit hard by...
BEIJING, A mostly Muslim county in western China has banned children from attending religious events over a winter break, an education bureau said...
JAKARTA, Indonesia is deploying military paramedics to carry food and vaccines to a remote part of its easternmost province of Papua, where reports...
BANGKOK, Thailand’s military court on Wednesday dropped the prosecution of an 85-year-old academic who had been accused of royal insult for questioning the...
YANGON: Myanmar police shot dead seven demonstrators and 12 were injured in troubled Rakhine State, after a local gathering celebrating an ancient Buddhist...
GENEVA: A UN investigator who was denied access to Myanmar will be visiting Bangladesh and Thailand on Jan. 18-30. In December, Myanmar had...
TOKYO: The leader of the campaign group that won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday urged Japan to join a United Nations...
Medan, Indonesia: An Indonesian teenager was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for "insulting" President Joko Widodo on Facebook. The 18-year-old high...
Seoul, North Korea on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump's tweeted message that he has a bigger nuclear button than its leader Kim Jong-Un...
Asmat, Indonesia, Dozens of toddlers in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province have died from malnutrition and measles over the past few months, a military...
JAKARTA: A huge fire destroyed most of a Dutch colonial heritage site dating back to the 17th century, including a maritime museum, in...
Sydney: Australia's Qantas has changed its website classification of Taiwan and Hong Kong from separate countries to Chinese territories after Chinese regulators scolded...
ISLAMABAD: More than 1,800 Pakistani Muslim clerics have issued an Islamic directive, or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings, a book due to be unveiled...
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart Donald Trump that there have been "positive changes" on the Korean peninsula, state media...
Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed to repatriate Rohingya recently displaced by an army crackdown "within two years", Dhaka said Tuesday, outlining the first...
MANILA: The office of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte sought to distance itself on Tuesday from a regulator's decision to revoke the license of...
MANILA, The Philippines’ most active volcano spewed lava that cascaded downslope and emitted ash that fell on nearby towns, state volcanologists said on...
HONG KONG: A South Korean man was formally charged on Tuesday with murdering his wife and six-year-old son at the five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel...
