World / Asia

SINGAPORE, US Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday President Donald Trump plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh:  Bangladesh authorities said they are ready to begin repatriating some of the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled...

JAKARTA, Indonesia:  An Indonesian woman whose fiance died on a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea was photographed in her wedding...

SEOUL, South Korea:  A five-member North Korean delegation came to South Korea on Wednesday to attend an academic forum on Japan's wartime actions,...

Sriharikota: India's heaviest rocket - Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III)-- carrying 3,423 kg communication satellite GSAT-29 blasted off from the Sriharikota...

Singapore: The violence which drove 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh was "without excuse", US Vice President Mike Pence told Aung San...

Singapore: China is touting itself as the new defender of global commerce as it works with Asia-Pacific leaders to hammer out the world's...

President Rodrigo Duterte’s government has intensified its campaign against critics in a move that’s raising concerns about growing attacks on media freedom in...

SINGAPORE:  Southeast Asian nations will call for those responsible for atrocities in Myanmar's Rakhine state to be held "fully accountable", according to a...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized what he called "inaccurate" media reports that North Korea had not declared an estimated 20...

New Delhi:  India's top court Tuesday agreed to hear challenges to its decision to overturn a ban on women of menstruating age from...

MELBOURNE: An Australian man who drove a car into dozens of pedestrians on a busy shopping street in central Melbourne last year, killing...

New Delhi: New Delhi's homeless will be given cotton masks to help them survive in the world's most polluted major city, officials said...

Beirut: The Islamic State group claimed a suicide attack that killed six people in Kabul on Monday and wounded 20 others, its propaganda...

Kabul: At least three people were killed when a suicide attacker blew himself up in Kabul Monday, close to where scores of Afghans...

Kabul: Casualties are feared after a huge explosion rocked Kabul on Monday close to where scores of Afghans had been protesting against Taliban...

BEIJING, China has postponed the lifting of a ban on the trade of rhino horn and tiger parts for medicine and other uses,...

NEW DELHI: India's air safety watchdog on Monday suspended the license of a senior Air India pilot, who is also the carrier's director...