World / Asia

Lack of future prompts Rohingya to flee Bangladesh 02 Jun 2019 - 11:35 pm

DHAKA, Bangladesh:Nineteen-year-old Mohammad Amin is one of the 54 Rohingya refugees who each paid 45,000 Bangladeshi taka ($532) to local traffickers to go...

Tiananmen's key moments: hope crushed by soldiers and tanks 02 Jun 2019 - 08:58 pm

Hong Kong: Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing where Chinese troops fired on peaceful protesters, drawing global...

Exiled Tiananmen dissident barred from Hong Kong 02 Jun 2019 - 08:58 pm

Hong Kong: A Tiananmen Square protest leader was barred from entering Hong Kong on Sunday after travelling to the city for a candlelight...

From 1989 to '1984': Generation Tiananmen lament China's descent 02 Jun 2019 - 08:58 pm

Hong Kong: Thirty years after they fled the bullets and tanks, Tiananmen exiles say their dream of returning to a democratic China are...

British Airways flights to Pakistan resume after more than 10 years 02 Jun 2019 - 07:38 pm

London: British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan today, more than a decade after the route was suspended following a hotel bombing. British...

India rescuers search for missing climbers on Himalayan peak 02 Jun 2019 - 02:46 pm

LUCKNOW, India: Rescuers on Sunday searched for eight mostly foreign mountaineers who went missing while attempting to scale India's second-highest mountain, an official...

Four rescued, eight still missing on avalanche-hit Indian peak 02 Jun 2019 - 01:06 pm

New Delhi: Four British climbers have been rescued from an avalanche-hit Himalayan mountain range, Indian authorities said Sunday, as a frantic search continued...

Twitter apologises for suspending accounts critical of China 02 Jun 2019 - 11:49 am

Beijing: Twitter has apologised for suspending a number of accounts critical of China, days before the politically sensitive 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen...

Police chief blames president for failing to prevent Sri Lanka attacks 02 Jun 2019 - 10:55 am

Colombo: Sri Lanka's suspended police chief has petitioned the Supreme Court, accusing President Maithripala Sirisena of failing to prevent the Easter bombings that...

On 30th anniversary, China says Tiananmen crackdown was 'correct' policy 02 Jun 2019 - 10:51 am

Singapore, China on Sunday defended the bloody Tiananmen crackdown on student protesters in a rare public acknowledgement of the event, days before its...

Three blasts hit Kabul, killing one and injuring 17 02 Jun 2019 - 10:38 am

Kabul: One person was killed and 17 others wounded Sunday in three successive blasts in Kabul, Afghan officials said, capping a murderous week...

Former Indonesian first lady Ani Yudhoyono dies at 66 01 Jun 2019 - 03:51 pm

JAKARTA, Indonesia: Former Indonesian first lady Kristiani Herrawati Yudhoyono died Saturday of leukemia in a Singapore hospital. She was 66. Singapore's Foreign Ministry...