Asia

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte kept his "excellent" trust rating for a fourth consecutive quarter in an opinion poll, with...

Pyongyang/Seoul: From carrot-flavoured toothpaste and charcoal facemasks to motorcycles and solar panels, visitors to North Korea say they are seeing more...

Beijing: The Chinese capital is sanitising its ancient hutong alleyways, home to millions of migrants workers and thousands of small businesses, bulldozing...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia has seized more than $2 million worth of scales from pangolins, the world's most poached animal, at Kuala Lumpur airport in the...

Dhaka: Two suspected militants on Sunday blew themselves up in "suicide blasts" when security forces raided their hideout in Bangladesh, the...

Seoul: North Korea said on Sunday it has detained another American citizen on suspicion of acts against the state, which if confirmed would make him the...

Shanghai: Organisers barred journalists on Sunday from a publicly advertised event in Shanghai that offered Chinese investors the chance to get U.S....

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's 1.6 million public servants have long been one of the most reliable vote banks for Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling...

Kathmandu: Nepal's 86-year-old mountaineer Min Bahadur Sherchan, who was once the oldest climber to scale the Mount Everest, died on Saturday at its...

Beijing: A Chinese manned submersible has discovered a collection of polymetallic nodules in Puyuan Seamount in the disputed South China Sea. The...