TOKYO: The leader of the campaign group that won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday urged Japan to join a United Nations...
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...
PARIS: India has reported an outbreak of a highly contagious bird flu virus near Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka, the World...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Monday destroyed $108 million worth of cocaine in public, seized by authorities in the port of Colombo which is...
TOKYO/BEIJING, Black smoke was billowing from the East China Sea site where a burning Iranian oil tanker sank, Japanese authorities said on Monday,...
JAKARTA: Dozens of people were seen running from the Indonesian Stock Exchange in central Jakarta on Monday, Metro TV showed, after unconfirmed reports...
New Delhi, A speeding truck ploughed into a rickshaw in eastern India killing at least 12 passengers, police said Monday. The dead were...
KAUNAS, Lithuania: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday honoured a Japanese diplomat credited with saving an estimated 6,000 Jews from almost certain...
