Asia

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday asked parliament to decide how and when she can give up power over an influence-peddling scandal,...

Itu Aba(South China Sea): Taiwan held rescue drills on Tuesday off the coast of its sole outpost in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea, but the...

Beijing: Chinese police have formally detained nine people involved in a power plant construction project in the east of the country which collapsed last...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye cannot be questioned by Tuesday as prosecutors have requested, her lawyer said, as she resists growing calls to...

Jakarta: Indonesia's police chief said that a rally to be held by groups on Friday calling for the ouster of Jakarta's governor would be "super...

Manila: Philippine police conducted a controlled detonation of a home-made bomb found in a trash bin near the US embassy in Manila on Monday and said...

Beijing: China said on Monday it had lodged a protest with Singapore after Singaporean armoured troop carriers were seized by Hong Kong customs en route...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye will not respond to a request by prosecutors to question her this week, her lawyer said on Monday, amid a...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Sunday that he will "not necessarily" call a snap election next year, amid talk that he...

Manila: Government troops have killed at least 11 members of a rebel group in the southern Philippines that has pledged allegiance to IS, the military said,...