Asia

Naypyitaw/Yangon: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi is launching a major push to end decades of fighting between rebels and the military, with many of the...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's top court on Tuesday rejected a final appeal by the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami party against a death sentence for atrocities...

Tokyo: More than 100 flights were cancelled and evacuation warnings were issued for thousands of people as a powerful typhoon approached Japan's...

Jakarta: A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest at a church during a Sunday service was "obsessed" with extremist group IS,...

Dhaka: The United States believes that elements of IS are "connected" to operatives in Bangladesh, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday,...

Almaty: Uzbek leader Islam Karimov, whose Central Asian country is a stage for strategic rivalry between Russia, China and the West, is in stable condition...

Singapore: Officials sprayed insecticide and cleared drains of stagnant water in residential areas of Singapore at high risk of further Zika infections on...

Bangkok: Thai police identified on Monday a third suspect wanted in connection with a wave of bombs in tourist towns this month that killed four people and...

Manila: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday promised rewards running to tens of thousands of dollars for information leading to the capture of...

Beijing: At least four persons were injured on Sunday when an overpass connecting two buildings collapsed in China's northern Chaoyang district. The...