Asia

Jakarta: Energy company Pertamina plans to explore for oil and gas in areas close to Indonesia's maritime border in the South China Sea to assert the...

Kabul: The Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive on Tuesday, pledging to launch large-scale offensives against government strongholds backed...

Bishkek: Kyrgyz Prime Minister Temir Sariyev resigned on Monday after a parliamentary commission accused his cabinet of corruption, a move highlighting...

Manila: The Philippines army defended its operations on Monday after 18 soldiers were killed and more than 50 wounded in a jungle ambush by militants in the...

Manila: The Philippines must make sure casinos are covered by anti-money laundering legislation, the World Bank said on Monday, joining calls for the...

Seoul/Beijing: Two senior North Korean officials, including an army colonel specialising in espionage against the South, defected to South Korea last year,...

Jalalabad (Afghanistan): A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 12 army recruits on a bus in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, hours...

Manila: A tough-talking mayor in the southern Philippines, who has vowed to end corruption and crime, has topped the latest opinion poll and become the new...

Hiroshima(Japan): US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called his visit to a memorial to victims of the 1945 US nuclear attack on Hiroshima...

Manila: Philippine soldiers battled a group of about 120 rebels linked to IS in a ten-hour assault on a southern island that killed 23 people, an army...