Asia

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

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...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's election victory in 2016 did not rely on information bought from anybody and his campaign team did not...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia will hold a general election on May 9, the Election Commission said on Tuesday, in what could be the toughest test of the ruling...

Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with his North Korean counterpart, Ri Yong Ho, on Tuesday, and said afterwards that Moscow...

Ashoro (Japan): A 112-year-old Japanese man born months before Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity was recognised on Tuesday as the...

Hanoi: Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc's chief executive, questioning...

Colombo: Sri Lankan police have arrested two army corporals for their suspected involvement in anti-Muslim riots in the central highlands district of Kandy...

Kaiyuan (China): A man in northeastern China who always wanted to own an aircraft is doing the next best thing: building a full-scale replica of an Airbus...

Manila: The Philippine Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday on a government bid to invalidate the appointment of the court's top judge, whom...