Asia

Manila: A Philippine lawmaker is seeking to permanently ban US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump from visiting the Southeast Asian nation after...

Manila: Dozens of Philippine government and police officials turned themselves in on Monday, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte linked them to the drugs...

Tokyo: Japanese Emperor Akihito, 82, in a rare video address to the public on Monday, said he worried that age may make it difficult for him to fully carry...

Bangkok: A democratically elected government will take power in Thailand at the earliest by December 2017, a senior Thai official said on Monday, after the...

Tokyo: Japan said on Monday it would respond firmly after Chinese government vessels had intruded into what Tokyo considers its territorial waters near...

Jakarta: Indonesian authorities said on Monday several suspected hardline radicals arrested last week on suspicion of plotting to attack neighbouring...

Bangkok/Khon Kaen (Thailand): Thai voters approved a junta-backed constitution in a referendum on Sunday, preliminary results showed, an outcome that paves...

Tokyo: Japan has filed a protest to Beijing after the discovery that China installed radar equipment in a gas exploration platform close to disputed waters...

Dhaka: A court in Bangladesh issued warrants on Sunday for the arrest of four suspected members of a banned group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), in...

Batam (Indonesia): It was social media chatter that gave him away. Changing his profile picture on the LINE messaging app to a banner pledging...