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Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday instructed the army and police to shoot him if he became a dictator and stayed on beyond his term, a...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe opened a new session of parliament on Monday with familiar promises for economic reform and stronger defence, but...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia has arrested two men believed to have links with militant group IS, including one who allegedly walked around its capital armed with...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian prosecutors in the trial of two women accused of the poison murder of the North Korean leader's estranged half-brother will call...

Seoul: Small but vocal groups of South Korean demonstrators on Monday protested North Korea's participation in next month's Winter Olympics, as a...

Seoul: South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday a thaw in relations between the two Koreas ahead of next month's Winter Olympics presented a...

San Francisco: Facebook Inc warned on Monday that it could offer no assurance that social media was on balance good for democracy, but the company said it...

Manila: The head of a Philippine news site ordered closed for ownership violations met state investigators on Monday to answer what she called a...

Bangkok: A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand's southern Yala province on Monday, killing three people and wounding 22, a spokesman for...

A rare snowstorm hit Tokyo on Monday, snarling train services, forcing the cancellation of scores of flights and prompting hordes of workaholic Japanese to...