Asia

Sydney: A Bangladeshi refugee died of heart failure on Nauru on Wednesday, Australian officials said, the second death in as many weeks on the tiny South...

Thailand: Ta Mla Saw was about seven when she and her family fled from Myanmar troops attacking her village in the country's ethnic Karen region, and...

Beijing:Taiwan's new government will be to blame for any crisis with China that erupts once it assumes office, Beijing said on Wednesday, heaping on the...

Sydney: Australian police have detained five men suspected of planning to sail a small boat from the far north to Indonesia and the Philippines en route to...

Washington: The United States signalled on Tuesday it will work with the apparent victor of the Philippines presidential election, Rodrigo Duterte, despite...

Kabul : At least 10 people were killed and 23 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew up his car near the house of a pro-government militia commander...

Dhaka: Bangladesh hanged Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence, the...

Manila: The Philippines started the process to strengthen its anti-money laundering and bank secrecy laws on Tuesday, aiming to plug loopholes that allowed...

Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan): Taliban insurgents killed at least 15 Afghan policemen when they overran two checkpoints in Helmand province in an attack on...

Kathmandu: Climbers on Mount Everest are on the brink of the first attempts in three years to make the final ascent to the world's tallest peak, after...