World / Asia

S. Korea navy fires warning shots at North vessel 08 Feb 2016 - 08:30 am

Seoul: The South Korean navy fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that intruded over their disputed maritime border Monday, a...

Philippines' raucous election season gets underway 08 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

File photo Manila: The Philippines' raucous democracy cranks into top gear this week as campaigning begins for national elections, with familiar themes of...

UN Security Council strongly condemns North Korea rocket launch 08 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

A North Korean long-range rocket is launched into the air at the Sohae rocket launch site in this photo released by Kyodo Feb...

UN against amnesty for jailed Sri Lanka rebels: chief minister 08 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

Speaking on a trip to the island nation, UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said jailed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

UN rights chief meets families of Sri Lanka’s war victims 08 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

United Nations (U.N.) High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein speaks to the media before he leaves his hotel to meet...

China school sees monkey business in New Year 07 Feb 2016 - 05:00 pm

Instructors and monkeys pictured during a mock mathematics class at a monkey training school in Dongying, eastern China's Shandong province. AFP, Wang Zhao ...

Fire kills 10 in southern Pakistan: police 07 Feb 2016 - 04:34 pm

Representative image Karachi: A fire started by a falling oil lamp engulfed several huts in a Pakistan fishing village and killed 10 people...

Loan rejection may been early warning of Taiwan building collapse 07 Feb 2016 - 01:20 pm

Relatives of trapped residents wait for information on the second day of search and rescue operations in Tainan on Feb 7, 2016. AFP/Sam...

Rescuers race to save over 120 buried after Taiwan quake 07 Feb 2016 - 01:13 pm

Rescuers search for survivors from a collapsed building following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on 06 February in Tainan City, southern Taiwan, 07...

Government to address concerns over Pay Commission 07 Feb 2016 - 12:01 pm

Visakhapatnam: The government has studied representations from the armed forces vis-a-vis the 7th Pay Commission and their concerns will be addressed "in the...

'Green' lessons fetch Reliance Industries staffer Guinness entry 07 Feb 2016 - 11:47 am

Coimbatore: An hour-long lesson last year on how to segregate waste at source, involving 12,994 people of this city, has fetched CGS Manion,...

Parrikar rules out withdrawing troops from Siachen 07 Feb 2016 - 11:45 am

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar Visakhapatnam: Terming the recent death of 10 soldiers in an avalanche on the Siachen glacier "painful", Defence Minister Manohar...

N.Korea rocket launch 'serious damage' to regional security: Russia 07 Feb 2016 - 10:38 am

A North Korean long-range rocket is launched into the air at the Sohae rocket launch site, North Korea, in this photo released by...

Azam says Modi met Dawood in Lahore; government terms it baseless 07 Feb 2016 - 09:26 am

India prime minister Narendra Modi at the residence of his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Lahore. Lucknow/New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan...

Diary of living Japanese interpreter of Netaji confirms crash theory: Website 07 Feb 2016 - 09:22 am

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose London: Kazunori Kunizuka, who worked as an interpreter with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from 1943 to 1945, is still...

Philippine mayor shot in pre-election ambush 07 Feb 2016 - 08:31 am

Manila: A Philippine town mayor was shot and wounded in an ambush in the conflict-wracked south on Sunday, two days before the official...

N. Korea praises launch, others see as covert missile test 07 Feb 2016 - 08:30 am

This picture taken from North Korean TV and released by South Korean news agency Yonhap on February 7, 2016 shows North Korea's locket...

China expresses regret over North Korea rocket launch 07 Feb 2016 - 08:23 am

Beijing: China on Sunday "expressed regret" over North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket, after Pyongyang said it successfully put a satellite into...