World / Asia

Myanmar to hold landmark vote as planned on Nov.8 14 Oct 2015 - 12:00 am

By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON: Myanmar's general election will go ahead as scheduled on Nov. 8, according to an announcement...

Refugees in Pakistan hit by aid cuts as Europe crisis drains funds 13 Oct 2015 - 04:46 pm

By Asad Hashim PESHAWAR: Aid programmes for some of the 2.5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are being slashed amid the worst funding...

Myanmar may postpone landmark November poll due to floods 13 Oct 2015 - 04:23 pm

By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON: Myanmar's election commission and the country's biggest political parties on Tuesday discussed postponing a historic...

Pakistan hangs eight for murder 13 Oct 2015 - 03:21 pm

MULTAN: Pakistan on Tuesday hanged at least eight men for murder, officials said, bringing the total number of people executed since it controversially...

'Shantaram' sequel hits shelves after a decade 13 Oct 2015 - 03:08 pm

MUMBAI: A long-awaited sequel to "Shantaram" went on sale on Tuesday, 12 years after the novel about an escaped Australian convict in India...

Rising salinity threatens Bangladesh's coastal communities 13 Oct 2015 - 02:07 pm

By Pantho Rahaman GAMBURA, Bangladesh: S uruj Miah walks through his village carrying two large pots of water, one in his hand and...

Philippines dismisses reports MH370 wreckage found on remote island 13 Oct 2015 - 09:04 am

Zamboanga, Philippines: Philippine authorities insisted Tuesday a Malaysian Airlines jet that went missing last year had not crashed onto a remote Filipino island,...

Indian police arrest six over ink attack 13 Oct 2015 - 08:56 am

Mumbai: Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested six members of a far-right political group over an ink attack on an activist who...

Landslide kills 17 in Myanmar: state media 13 Oct 2015 - 08:47 am

Yangon: A landslide triggered by torrential rains has killed at least 17 people in eastern Myanmar and forced the evacuation of scores more,...

Pakistan's landslide leaves 13 people dead 13 Oct 2015 - 08:28 am

Islamabad: Thirteen people were dead as a result of a landslide that buried shanties in Gulsitan-e-Jauhar area in Karachi early on Tuesday. According...

First phase of Battle Bihar ends, 57 percent voting 13 Oct 2015 - 12:00 am

Women wait in a line to cast their vote outside a polling station in Samastipur district in the eastern state of Bihar, India. ...

Resurgent Taliban threaten to overrun another Afghan city 12 Oct 2015 - 06:57 pm

Ghazni, Afghanistan: Fighting flared in eastern Afghanistan Monday as Taliban insurgents threatened to storm another provincial capital, two weeks after their lightning capture...

Rare new picture surfaces of Taliban founder Mullah Omar 12 Oct 2015 - 03:13 pm

This handout photograph taken in 1978 and obtained from the Afghan Taliban on October 12, 2015 shows the late Afghan Taliban leader Mullah...

Noted poet Rajesh Joshi returns Akademi award 12 Oct 2015 - 02:55 pm

BHOPAL: Noted Hindi poet Rajesh Joshi here on Monday announced he had returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the attacks on...

Alleged Shiv Sainiks smear ink on Kasuri book-launch organiser 12 Oct 2015 - 02:36 pm

Indian activist Sudheendra Kulkarni (L), whose face was blackened by ink in an alleged attack, looks on as former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid...

Philippines' turbulent election season kicks off 12 Oct 2015 - 11:01 am

Manila: The Philippines' election season kicked off Monday with politicians registering for thousands of posts, launching a typically raucous and deadly seven months...

India's Modi seeks to cement power as key state votes 12 Oct 2015 - 10:44 am

Samastipur, India: India's poorest state, Bihar, began voting Monday in a high-stakes election that premier Narendra Modi hopes will help his government push...