Asia

Yangon: As many as 69 members of what Myanmar's government has described as a Rohingya militant group and 17 security forces have been killed in a...

Shanghai: Air quality in China's smog-hit northern regions, which include the capital Beijing, worsened in October despite overall improvements over the...

Wellington: New Zealand emergency services and defence personnel evacuated hundreds of tourists and residents from a small South Island town amid more...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has retained a lawyer ahead of questioning by prosecutors investigating a favours scandal engulfing her...

Beijing/Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President-elect Donald Trump that cooperation was the only choice for relations between the...

Manila: A fire that raged for seven hours through a crowded Manila slum community killed two people and left close to 1,500 families homeless, fire...

Wellington: A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake pummelled central New Zealand early on Monday, killing at least two people, damaging roads and buildings and...

SYDNEY: Australia has reached a resettlement deal with the United States for refugees being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru after attempting to reach...

Kabul: Afghanistan's parliament dismissed two more cabinet ministers on Sunday, ignoring pleas from the president and chief executive to halt votes that...

Kabul: The United Nations on Sunday appealed for $152 million to provide shelter, sanitation and food for a huge influx of refugees returning to Afghanistan...