Asia

Seoul: An executive from British consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser was slapped during an emotional news conference as he apologised on Monday over...

Sydney: Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Wright has told the BBC he was the creator of controversial digital currency bitcoin after years of speculation...

Seoul/London: South Korea has revived a project to build a backup ship navigation system that would be difficult to hack after a recent wave of GPS signal...

Baimaling( China): The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel...

Hanoi: Hundreds of people demonstrated in Vietnam on Sunday against a Taiwanese firm they accuse of causing mass fish deaths along the country's central...

Manila: Militants in the southern Philippines released 10 Indonesian hostages on Sunday, ending a month-long ordeal during which a kidnapped Canadian held...

Beijing: China and Japan both expressed a willingness to improve strained relations on Saturday after a rare meeting between their two foreign ministers in...

Kabul: Government forces have launched operations against the Taliban in 18 provinces of Afghanistan as fighting has intensified since the start of the...

Washington/Hong Kong: China has denied a request for a US carrier strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis to visit to Hong Kong, the US Defence...

Sydney: Lawyers for 850 asylum seekers held in a controversial detention centre in Papua New Guinea said on Friday they planned to seek potentially billions...