Asia

Hangzhou (China): China and the United States ratified the Paris agreement to cut climate-warming emissions on Saturday, marking a major step toward the...

Vladivostok( Russia): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday spoke of their joint resolve to settle once and...

Bangkok: One railway worker was killed and three people were wounded when a bomb exploded on a train in Thailand's southern town of Pattani on Saturday,...

Almaty: Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan for the past quarter of a century, was buried in his home city of Samarkand on Saturday, leaving behind a...

Tashkent: Thousands of Uzbeks lined Tashkent's main thoroughfare at dawn on Saturday as President Islam Karimov's funeral cortege made its way...

Manila: An explosion at a packed night market in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte killed at least 12 people on Friday and wounded...

Bangkok: Peace talks between Thailand's military government and separatists ended on Friday with no breakthrough but an agreement to meet again, and...

Colombo: United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged Sri Lanka to do more to redress wrongs committed during 26 years of war with...

Singapore: Singapore said on Friday it had found 38 more people who had contracted Zika, raising to 189 the number infected with the mosquito-borne virus...

Manila: The Philippines is stepping up President Rodrigo Duterte's battle on drugs with incoming college freshmen set to face tests for illegal drug use...