Asia

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...

Yangon: The new ambassador of the United States to Myanmar said on Tuesday he will keep using the term Rohingya for the Muslim minority, even after the...

Pyongyang: Thousands of ecstatic North Koreans joined a mass rally and parade on Tuesday as leader Kim Jong Un capped off the consolidation of his power at...

Beijing/Hong Kong: China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a US navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China...

Manila: The Philippines' president-elect, rough-talking city mayor Rodrigo Duterte, announced plans on Tuesday for an overhaul of the country's...

Pyongyang: North Korea said it would strengthen its defensive nuclear weapons capability, the official KCNA news agency reported on Monday, a decision...

Beijing: Chinese regulators has imposed limits on the number of lucrative healthcare adverts carried by Baidu Inc following the death of a student who...

Beijing: The death toll in a landslide in China's southeastern Fujian province has risen to 34, with four people still missing, state media said on...

Wellington: Wealthy Latin Americans are using secretive, tax-free New Zealand shelf companies and trusts to help channel funds around the world, according...