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Taipei: Taiwan is prepared to defend itself against China if necessary, the self-ruled island's defence ministry said on Tuesday, in a strongly worded...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong announced on Tuesday a controversial plan to allow mainland officials to enforce Chinese laws inside a Hong Kong train station, an...

Manila: China's foreign minister on Tuesday said he supported the idea of joint energy ventures with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea,...

Jakarta: Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) has warned of an escalating threat of forest fires with the dry season expected to peak in coming...

Beijing/Hong Kong: In a country where you can find everything from chopsticks to slippers designed to look like pandas, one Chinese energy company is going...

Washington: Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane over the East China Sea at the weekend, with one jet coming within about 300...

Beirut: Air strikes killed at least nine people in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus overnight and insurgent shelling from the rebel-held area landed...

New Delhi: Ram Nath Kovind took over as India's 14th president on Tuesday, on a day of ceremony and regalia during which he underscored that the key to...

Rome: A French diplomatic initiative aimed at resolving Libya's long-running crisis angered Italian officials on Monday, who saw it as another example...

Istanbul: Prominent journalists and other staff at a Turkish opposition newspaper went on trial on Monday accused of supporting a terrorist group, in a case...