Asia

Hanoi: Mosquitoes have infected two women with the Zika virus in Vietnam, health authorities said on Tuesday, in the country's first cases of a disease...

Dhaka: A former Bangladeshi prime minister surrendered to a court on Tuesday in connection an arrest warrant over a deadly fire bombing attack on a bus. She...

Kathmandu: Nepal risks more turmoil if it fails to address the demands for greater representation of minority ethnic Madhesis in the new constitution, the...

Peshawar: The Taliban appointed the son of its late founder Mullah Mohammad Omar as head of a military commission on Monday and named him and his uncle to...

Phnom Penh: Cambodia's parliament endorsed a new 26-member cabinet on Monday in a rare shuffle of an ageing leadership as Prime Minister Hun Sen...

Manila: About 8,000 US and Filipino troops began annual military exercises on Monday against a backdrop of tension over China's greater assertiveness in...

Sydney: Officials wound back an initial tsunami threat issued after a large earthquake struck off the coast of the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu on...

Tokyo: Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or "karoshi", a phenomenon previously associated...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) on Sunday denied reports that it had provided funds to finance the 2013 Hollywood...

Subic Bay( Philippines): A Japanese submarine made a port call in the Philippines, the first in 15 years, on Sunday in a show of growing military...