Asia

Taipei: Taiwan president-elect Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday her first cabinet would focus on the economic and financial issues, but avoided discussing...

Tokyo: A new name unveiled by Japan's main opposition party and a smaller group with which it is set to merge has come under fire, as analysts warn the...

Naypyitaw:Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the...

Geneva: The United Nations human rights investigator for North Korea called on Monday for leader Kim Jong Un and senior officials in the country to be...

Hanoi: Demonstrators marched in Vietnam's capital on Monday to mark the 28th anniversary of a bloody naval battle with China and to denounce...

Bangkok: An accident at the headquarters of Thailand's Siam Commercial Bank, possibly caused by a fire retardant chemical, has killed eight people, the...

Beijing: China's military must pour efforts into developing cutting edge defence technology, which has strategic significance, China's President Xi...

Narathiwat(Thailand): Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told the army on Monday to increase security in the country's southern provinces following...

Seoul: South Korean Lee Sedol won his first match against a computer program developed by a Google subsidiary on Sunday in the ancient board game Go,...

Beijing: Chinese courts convicted more than 1,400 people last year for harming national security, including taking part in terrorism and secessionist...