World / Asia

S. Korea crisis proves perils of cheating at school 04 Dec 2016 - 12:28 pm

Seoul: When South Korea's Park Geun-Hye looks back on the scandal-fuelled implosion of her presidency, she may reflect ruefully on what lit the...

Uzbekistan holds presidential election 04 Dec 2016 - 11:44 am

Tashkent: Uzbekistan is voting to elect a new president following the death of Islam Karimov, the only leader the country has known since...

Uzbekistan votes to elect second ever president 04 Dec 2016 - 11:18 am

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: Uzbekistan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a successor to the late strongman Islam Karimov with long-serving prime minister...

US woman alleges gang-rape in Indian capital 04 Dec 2016 - 10:52 am

New Delhi: A US woman has told police she was gang-raped at a top hotel in the Indian capital during a visit earlier...

Body parts found after Indonesian plane missing 04 Dec 2016 - 09:12 am

Jakarta: Authorities have recovered body parts and debris in waters where an Indonesian plane carrying police went missing, officials said Sunday, raising fears...

China lodges protest after Trump call with Taiwan president 03 Dec 2016 - 08:37 pm

BEIJING/WASHINGTON: China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but...

US warns crackdown in Myanmar could radicalize Rohingya 03 Dec 2016 - 05:59 pm

WASHINGTON: It's a scene straight out of Myanmar's dark past: a military offensive waged beyond world view that forces ethnic minority villagers from...

Afghan Taliban hang university student in public: officials 03 Dec 2016 - 04:50 pm

Ghazni, Afghanistan: Taliban militants publicly hanged a university student after accusing him of killing a senior intelligence officer, Afghan officials said Saturday. The...

Indonesia police plane missing, feared crashed 03 Dec 2016 - 02:29 pm

Jakarta: An Indonesian police plane carrying 13 people went missing Saturday on a short domestic flight and is feared crashed, police said, the...

Police fire teargas outside Sri Lanka parliament 03 Dec 2016 - 01:26 pm

Colombo: Police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse thousands of opposition-backed protestors outside parliament Saturday as law makers debated the annual budget....

Beijing protests to US over Trump Taiwan call 03 Dec 2016 - 01:22 pm

Beijing: Beijing has lodged a protest with the United States over a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen,...

Malaysia hits out at Myanmar over 'ethnic cleansing' 03 Dec 2016 - 01:11 pm

Maungdaw, Myanmar: Malaysia accused Myanmar of engaging in the "ethnic cleansing" of its Rohingya minority Saturday, as former UN chief Kofi Annan visited...

Two migrants killed in accident in Austria 03 Dec 2016 - 01:09 pm

Vienna: Two suspected migrants were killed Saturday and a third was seriously injured in an accident as they hid in a cargo train...

Indonesian police plane with 15 on board goes missing 03 Dec 2016 - 12:50 pm

JAKARTA: A twin-engine Indonesian police plane went missing on Saturday with 15 people on board en route to the island of Batam, south...

Mass protest demands ouster, arrest of S. Korea president 03 Dec 2016 - 12:09 pm

Seoul: Hundreds of thousands of protestors marched in Seoul for the sixth-straight week Saturday to demand the ouster and arrest of scandal-hit President...

Chinese mine disasters kill at least 38 03 Dec 2016 - 11:56 am

BEIJING: At least 38 people have died in two separate coal mine disasters in China in the last five days, state media said,...

Malaysia calls for immediate stop to Rohingya persecution 03 Dec 2016 - 11:17 am

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia today called on Myanmar to immediately stop the persecution of the minority Rohingya community in northern Rakhine, saying it was...

Fed-up MH370 relatives head to Madagascar 03 Dec 2016 - 10:42 am

Kuala Lumpur: Relatives of missing MH370 passengers were headed to Madagascar Saturday, harbouring hopes of finding seaborne debris, 1,001 days since the mysterious...