Asia

Beijing: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressed on Friday that the United States was not after a "winner-take-all" approach with China.She made the...

Tokyo: Two persons died and six were injured after a bridge girder slipped off a raised platform at a construction site in central Japan on Thursday,...

Seoul: The satellite North Korea failed to put into orbit had no meaningful military use, South Korea's military said on Wednesday after analysing its...

Chongqing: Heavy downpours have killed 15 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, state media reported on Wednesday.President Xi Jinping has...

Kabul: As some 28 million people in Afghanistan are in dire need of emergency aid, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced the organisation has decreased...

Kabul: The United Nations in Afghanistan unveiled its Strategic Framework for Afghanistan, which outlines the organization’s approach to addressing...

Tokyo: Japan on Tuesday received approval from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for a plan to release treated radioactive wastewater from...

Kabul: The Taliban has in a new verbal decree, banned women's beauty salons in Kabul and other provinces across the country, a spokesman for Taliban...

Tokyo: An explosion at a building in Tokyo's Shimbashi commercial district on Monday left four people injured, Japan's state media NHK reported.The...

Manila: Taiwan has announced a one-year extension of visa-free access for Filipino nationals, including those from Thailand and Brunei, Manila-based media...