Asia

Jakarta: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for a review of a programme to develop 35 gigawatts of power-generating capacity by 2019 as the...

Beijing: The purported personal details of numerous Chinese business moguls and poltically-connected elite have been posted to an anonymous Twitter account,...

Beijing: China's state prosecutor on Friday formally charged a former senior aide to retired president Hu Jintao with taking bribes, illegally obtaining...

Dhaka: Clashes broke out between activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and police in several Bangladesh cities on Wednesday after the execution of the top Islamist...

Malaysia: Malaysia on Thursday said the two more pieces of plane debris found in South Africa and Mauritius "almost certainly" belonged to its...

Bangkok: Thailand on Wednesday defended its curbs on freedom of expression at a review of its rights record by the UN Human Rights Council, saying the...

Sydney: A Bangladeshi refugee died of heart failure on Nauru on Wednesday, Australian officials said, the second death in as many weeks on the tiny South...

Thailand: Ta Mla Saw was about seven when she and her family fled from Myanmar troops attacking her village in the country's ethnic Karen region, and...

Beijing:Taiwan's new government will be to blame for any crisis with China that erupts once it assumes office, Beijing said on Wednesday, heaping on the...

Sydney: Australian police have detained five men suspected of planning to sail a small boat from the far north to Indonesia and the Philippines en route to...