World / Asia

BEIJING: The wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Yu Wensheng said on Tuesday her husband had been charged with "inciting subversion of state...

Washington: A US government watchdog said Tuesday the Pentagon has barred it from disclosing how much of Afghanistan is under Taliban control --...

Shah Alam, Malaysia: The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un met an unidentified American on a tourist island in Malaysia four days...

KABUL: Militants on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate...

BEIJING: China's Ministry of Transport is planning to establish a laboratory specializing in treating oil spills at sea, the first of its kind...

Hong Kong: A Hong Kong pro-democracy candidate has been given last-minute clearance to stand for election after public anger at government meddling in...

GENEVA, More than 100,000 Rohingya refugees huddled in squalid, muddy camps in Bangladesh will be in grave danger from landslides when the mid-year...

YANGON, Myanmar's panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues will not get involved in the case of two Reuters journalists charged with violating...

Kabul: Gunmen and suicide bombers launched a pre-dawn attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a military compound in Kabul Monday, killing...

Mumbai, An Indian man died after being sucked into an MRI machine while visiting a relative at a hospital in Mumbai, police said...

Colombo, Sri Lanka's government is still using draconian anti-terror laws that give police sweeping powers to arrest and detain suspects despite promising to...

MANILA, Jeepneys, the flamboyant passenger trucks of the Philippines, are nearing the end of their reign as the "Kings of the Road", but...

CAIRO: Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack near one of Afghanistan's main military academies in the capital, Kabul, on Monday, according to...

Kabul: Gunmen launched a pre-dawn raid on a military compound in Kabul on Monday, officials said, in an ongoing assault that has caused...

BANGKOK:  A Thai pro-democracy activist said on Sunday she had fled Thailand after learning she would be prosecuted for defaming the monarchy for...

Kabul: Afghanistan Sunday declared a day of national mourning as the toll for those killed by a huge bomb hidden in an ambulance...

SYDNEY: Seven survivors from a ferry that went missing in the Pacific Ocean a week ago were found adrift in a dinghy by...

Islamabad, An elite group of climbers have saved a French mountaineer in a daring high-altitude rescue mission on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat, one of...