Asia

Pyongyang: North Korea said it would strengthen its defensive nuclear weapons capability, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday, a decision...

Beijing: Chinese regulators has imposed limits on the number of lucrative healthcare adverts carried by Baidu Inc following the death of a student who...

Beijing: The death toll in a landslide in China's southeastern Fujian province has risen to 34, with four people still missing, state media said on...

Wellington: Wealthy Latin Americans are using secretive, tax-free New Zealand shelf companies and trusts to help channel funds around the world, according...

Dhaka/Boston: Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new...

Kabul: Amid fierce fighting after the Taliban captured the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last year, US special forces advisers repeatedly asked their...

Hong Kong/Beijing: The law firm at the centre of the "Panama Papers" offshore tax haven controversy has written an apology to a Chinese banking...

Manila: Firebrand city mayor Rodrigo Duterte looked virtually certain to become the Philippines' next president as election results poured in on Monday,...

Pyongyang: North Korea expelled a BBC journalist on Monday over his reporting, the broadcaster and a North Korean official said, as a large group of foreign...

Beijing: At least 41 people were missing and seven others injured on Sunday when a massive landslide engulfed the construction site of a hydropower station...