Asia

Yangon: UN human rights experts have called on Myanmar to investigate allegations that security forces have killed unarmed civilians, burned villages and...

Sydney: International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday it plans to compensate the Australian government for a "malicious" cyber-attack that...

Hong Kong: The jury in the trial of a British investment banker accused of murdering two Indonesian women in his Hong Kong apartment on Tuesday as they...

Sydney: Four people were killed on Tuesday on a river rapids ride at Australia's biggest theme park, police said, after a malfunction threw two of the...

Beijing: A powerful blast at a prefabricated house in northwestern China on Monday killed at least seven people and injured 94, state news agency Xinhua...

Hong Kong: A Hong Kong judge warned jurors that they will have to view video filmed by former British banker Rurik Jutting of the torture and vicious...

Manila: The most senior US diplomat for Asia assured the Philippines on Monday that Washington remained its "trusted" ally and that it supported...

Bangkok: Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a...

Tokyo: Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and later to conquer the world's seven highest peaks, has died at the age of 77, Japanese...