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Beijing: China on Saturday appointed a new top official for the southern export powerhouse province of Guangdong, whose former leader sources say is likely...

Beijing: A fringe group of hard-line conservatives who long for the way things were under communist China’s founding leader, Mao Zedong, have welcomed...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday appointed his foreign minister as acting prime minister as he tried to stem the fallout of a...

Phnom Penh: Cambodia police on Saturday deported 61 Chinese nationals wanted in China on suspicion of extorting money over the Internet and by phone, they...

Naypyitaw/Yangon: Myanmar police said on Saturday they were preparing to charge journalists working for Turkey's state broadcaster TRT, their local...

Naypyitaw: A Myanmar state-run newspaper on Saturday corrected a report that a U.N. settlement programme, UN-Habitat, had agreed to help build housing for...

Seoul: U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday that he could not imagine United States ever accepting a nuclear North Korea, warning that its...

Madrid/Barcelona: Spain has sacked the chief of Catalonia's regional police force, Josep Lluis Trapero, as the government in Madrid takes control of the...

Jakarta: Indonesian authorities have detained a fireworks factory owner and a manager on suspicion of negligence after explosions and fire ripped through a...