Asia

Tokyo: Japan issued a new protest to Beijing on Saturday after Chinese coastguard ships and about 230 fishing vessels sailed close to what Tokyo considers...

Tokyo: Japan marked the 71st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Saturday as its mayor urged world leaders to follow in US President Barack...

Batam (Indonesia): Indonesian police found only a stash of bomb-making materials after arresting six men suspected of planning a rocket attack on Singapore...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given a commitment that $81 million stolen by cyber criminals from the account of Bangladesh Bank in New...

JAKARTA: Indonesian police arrested six suspected militants on Friday who they believed to be linked to the Is group and plotting a rocket attack on...

Bangkok: Ousted former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra defended her management of a rice subsidy scheme, which critics say haemorrhaged billions of...

Dubai: Bahrain's Gulf Air said on Friday that one of its aircraft suffered an engine failure shortly after take-off from the Philippines but landed...

Hong Kong: China's top prosecution body has cast a thin, bespectacled teenage activist from Hong Kong as a pro-independence advocate backed by the...

Kathmandu: Nepal's parliament on Wednesday elected Prachanda as the Himalayan nation's new prime minister, a week after KP Oli stepped down to avoid...

Manila: Philippine police commandos killed six bodyguards on Wednesday who worked for a town mayor who had turned himself in over links to the illegal drug...