Asia

ALMATY: Kazakhstan's central bank unveiled a new banknote on Tuesday featuring for the first time the portrait of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a...

Bangkok: The trial of two Chinese ethnic Uighur men suspected of carrying out a deadly bomb attack in Bangkok in 2015 began on Tuesday after three...

Dhaka: A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday indicted seven members of a banned group in the killing of a Japanese man last year, a prosecutor said. Kunio Hoshi,...

Hong Kong: A Hong Kong court on Tuesday disqualified two pro-independence lawmakers from taking office, ruling their oath of allegiance invalid in a...

Yangon: As many as 69 members of what Myanmar's government has described as a Rohingya militant group and 17 security forces have been killed in a...

Shanghai: Air quality in China's smog-hit northern regions, which include the capital Beijing, worsened in October despite overall improvements over the...

Wellington: New Zealand emergency services and defence personnel evacuated hundreds of tourists and residents from a small South Island town amid more...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has retained a lawyer ahead of questioning by prosecutors investigating a favours scandal engulfing her...

Beijing/Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President-elect Donald Trump that cooperation was the only choice for relations between the...

Manila: A fire that raged for seven hours through a crowded Manila slum community killed two people and left close to 1,500 families homeless, fire...