Asia

Beijing: China and a grouping of Southeast Asian nations aim to finish by the middle of next year a framework for a code of conduct to ease tension in the...

Beijing: Seven people were killed and a child remained missing after several vehicles were swept away by flash floods in China's northwest province of...

Manila: An Indonesian tugboat crewman escaped from his militant captors in the Philippines on Wednesday by swimming out to sea after the militants...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday his government is willing to face any inquiry into the deaths of hundreds of suspected drug...

Kuala Lumpur: An oil tanker which was first reported to have been hijacked and sailed into Indonesian waters, was likely taken over by its own crew due to a...

Sydney: Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention centre on Manus...

Tokyo: The clear favourite to become the first female leader of Japan's biggest opposition party believes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's signature...

Beijing: China will limit the operations of North Korean carrier Air Koryo after one of its aircraft made an emergency landing in a northeastern Chinese...

Muscat: Turkey will release almost a fifth of its convicts to ease congestion in prisons that have been packed with thousands of people arrested in...

Dhaka: Bangladeshi security forces said on Tuesday they had arrested four women suspected of being members of a home-grown militant group blamed for an...