Asia

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that Tokyo will give Malaysia two patrol boats, a move that visiting Malaysian Prime Minister...

Kabul: A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed at least four people and wounded several in an attack on a vehicle carrying national security officials in...

Manila: Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte thinks he will get along with Donald Trump as the US president-elect "has not meddled in human rights"...

Jakarta: Indonesian police said on Wednesday they will pursue an investigation into a blasphemy complaint by groups against the governor of Jakarta, amid...

Jakarta: An Indonesian court sentenced an American to life in prison on Wednesday for smuggling a large quantity of crystal meth into the country from...

Kuala Lumpur: Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday threw his weight behind a massive rally planned for this weekend to demand that...

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...