Australia has detected traces of foot-and-mouth disease on imported animal products, deepening fears about a potential outbreak that could devastate the nation’s livestock...
Australia has detected traces of foot-and-mouth disease on imported animal products, deepening fears about a potential outbreak that could devastate the nation’s livestock...
Jakarta: An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale struck southern Sumatra in Indonesia. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Wednesday...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in parliament on Wednesday to choose the next president from three contenders amid tight security, hoping the new...
TOKYO: Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination earlier this...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's main opposition leader withdrew from the presidential race on Tuesday and promised support to a low-profile politician from the ruling...
New Covid-19 cases in China jumped to almost 700, with more infectious strains of the virus continuing to test the country’s hardline approach...
SEOUL:South Korea's domestically developed fighter jet successfully completed its first test flight on Tuesday, a defence agency said, amid a push to replace...
JAKARTA, Indonesia:Rescuers were searching on Tuesday for 13 passengers from a boat that sank in bad weather and high waves while traveling between...
NARA:Bodyguards could have saved Shinzo Abe if they shielded him or removed him from the line of fire in the 2.5 seconds between...
Palm oil, the world’s most consumed cooking oil, may extend its slide, tumbling more than 20% to 3,000 ringgit ($673) a ton by...
Beijing: China’s financial sector GDP went up 5.9 percent in the second quarter from a year ago to 2.4249 trillion yuan about ($359.23bn)....
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party has won by-elections in Punjab, the country’s most populous province, and is likely to form...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday that the country had almost concluded negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF),...
India’s slow monsoon progress has delayed rice sowing but farmers will be ramping up planting in the coming months, which will likely ease...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe gazetted orders late on Sunday for a state of emergency in the crisis-ridden island nation, in...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Several large Chinese cities including Shanghai are on alert due to new clusters of COVID-19 infections, rolling out repeated mass testing or...
Deadly floods killed at least a dozen people in Western China this weekend and disrupted power and communications infrastructure as the country continues...
Pakistan expects to receive about $4 billion external financing from friendly countries after July, following an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on...
