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Bangkok: At 79, Thai businessman Boon Vasin's latest $500 million venture is a bet on a market he knows well - looking after Thailand's rapidly...

COX'S BAZAR (Bangladesh): A Myanmar minister told Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh on Wednesday their repatriation was a priority, during the...

Oxford: Discrimination against women and girls is a more pressing global challenge than disparities in income between the rich and the poor, former US...

Savar(Bangladesh): For four days Rubina Begum lay buried in debris, waiting for death. But the seamstress survived the Rana Plaza building collapse that...

Manila: The Philippines is looking to shorten the closure period for its most popular holiday hotspot Boracay to four months from six, but the number of...

Yangon: A judge on Wednesday rejected a request for dismissal of a case against two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar after being accused of possessing...

Beijing/Hong Kong: Chinese authorities are holding the wife of a detained Chinese rights lawyer in her Beijing home after they cut short her protest march...

Jakarta: Eighty-two Indonesians have died and many more have been hospitalised after drinking tainted bootleg liquor last week, police said on...

Algiers: More than 250 people were killed when a military plane crashed in a field near Algeria's capital on Wednesday, state media said, with witnesses...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied on Wednesday that he had intervened to secure preferential treatment for a friend's plan to set up a...