BEIJING: More than 700 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty in the last 30 years, with literacy rates and life...
BEIJING: More than 700 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty in the last 30 years, with literacy rates and life...
ISLAMABAD: U.S. president-elect Donald Trump offered to help solve Pakistan's problems and praised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as a "terrific guy" in the...
KUALA LUMPUR: Scandal-tainted Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak vowed to fight to the end for Malays and Islam on Thursday, as he called...
Sydney: High-risk terror offenders in Australia may now be kept in jail even after serving their sentences, under legislation passed Thursday that strengthens...
Seoul: South Korea's ruling party on Thursday urged scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye to step down in April next year, giving her a week...
PULWAMA, India: Farmers say a multi-million dollar plan, launched in 2010 to revive saffron cultivation in Indian-administered Kashmir by helping counter erratic rainfall,...
KAMPONG SPEU PROVINCE, Cambodia: Like spots on a leopard’s hide, small wooden houses and tiny fenced plots dot the sprawling Grandis Timber teak...
KURIGRAM, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi teacher Monjurul Islam was talking to his class of 10-year-olds about how the planet is heating up, when Mosammat Ferdousi...
SEOUL, South Korea: She pulled off a deft bit of political maneuvering, probably born of desperation. Now South Korea's president has a sliver...
Colombo: Sri Lankan police on Tuesday arrested a top Tamil warlord on corruption charges nearly two years after the defeat of his main...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's foreign minister has requested an immediate appointment with Myanmar state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss ongoing violence against...
HANOI: Vietnamese leaders continue to mourn the death of Fidel Castro four decades after ideological alignment and a mutual nemesis brought the two...
YANGON, Myanmar: A bomb disposal team has diffused four homemade explosive devices found at a major international airport in the Myanmar's commercial capital....
YANGON, Myanmar: A United Nations agency has called for urgent help for women and girls recently uprooted by conflicts in Myanmar’s Rakhine State...
SEOUL: South Korea will cull 3 percent of its total poultry population to curb an outbreak of bird flu that has hit a...
ASTANA: A Kazakh court Monday gave life in prison to seven people for organizing a terror attack on a military unit and a...
DANDONG, China: A labour agent sat in his bus on a recent frigid morning, waiting to cross the "Friendship Bridge" at China's main...
BANGKOK: Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday acknowledged the appointment of a new king, Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said, more than one month after the...
