Asia

Seoul: South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Monday for her novel "The Vegetarian", a dark, surreal...

Colombo: Flash floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, triggered by more than three days of heavy rain, have forced more than 130,000 people to leave their...

SHANGHAI: China must learn from the tumultuous, decade-long Cultural Revolution and never allow such an event to happen again, the ruling Communist...

BANGKOK: One of two ethnic Uighur Muslims from China accused of involvement in a deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine last year broke down in front of cameras...

Manila: The Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf has threatened to execute one of two foreign hostages on June 13 unless a ransom worth 600 million pesos ($13...

Davao (Philippines): Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday he would pursue peace talks with Marxist guerrillas and as an olive branch...

Jakarta: It’s clear from the dirt floor, the battered green sofa and the common-use comb hanging from a string next to the door that this is no ordinary...

Kabul: Thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan's Hazara minority marched through Kabul on Monday to protest against the planned route of a...

Kathmamndu: For weeks after Nepal's worst earthquake in 80 years, the skies above the Himalayan nation vibrated with military helicopters ferrying...

Dhaka: A Bangladesh government-appointed panel investigating the theft of $81 million from the country's central bank has found that SWIFT, the...