Asia

Sydney: Thousands of protesters rallied across Australia on Saturday condemning US President Donald Trump's order temporarily barring refugees and...

Tokyo: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis wrapped up a visit to Japan on Saturday reaffirming Washington's commitment to its defence treaty with Tokyo amid...

Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English called an election on Wednesday for September 23 after taking over as premier in December following the...

Tokyo: A Japanese hotel chain under fire for books its president wrote denying the Nanjing Massacre in wartime China will remove them from a hotel hosting...

Jakarta: A former Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said on Wednesday he believed his telephone may have recently been illegally tapped by...

Seoul: Former United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon, once considered front-runner to be the next South Korean president, ruled out a run for the job on...

Manila: The Philippine defence ministry asked President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday to issue an order for the military to play a role in his war on drugs,...

Manila: The Maoist-led rebel group in the Philippines said on Wednesday it was terminating a unilateral ceasefire it declared five months ago and resuming a...

Manila: Police prosecuting the war on drugs in the Philippines have behaved like the criminal underworld they are supposed to be suppressing, taking...

Kuala Lumpur: Chinese tourist Fan Li Xia and other passengers held on to the body of a dead friend for as long as they could as they trod water after a...