Asia

Yangon: Myanmar soldiers have killed at least four men during a sweep of villages following deadly attacks on police posts along the northwestern border...

Singapore/Zurich: Singapore's central bank on Tuesday shut down a second Swiss bank in the city-state and fined banks DBS and UBS in its biggest...

Geneva: A Chinese academic, jailed for life two years ago for campaigning for the rights of the Muslim Uighur people, has won a prestigious annual human...

Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan): A suspected car bomb on Monday killed at least 10 police amid increased Taliban attacks on the besieged capital of the...

Yangon: Myanmar has stepped up security in a Muslim-majority region near its border with Bangladesh, officials said on Monday, as authorities hunt for...

Manila: The government of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has been a "huge disappointment and letdown", a former president and one of...

Taipei: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday urged China to engage in talks, pledging to maintain peace with the island's giant neighbour, amid a...

Bangkok: Thailand's 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning monarch, is in an unstable condition after receiving...

Seoul: Washington will use all available means outside the UN Security Council to isolate North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme and counter its...

Beijing: China must speed up plans to replace insecure Internet technology with domestic alternatives, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, the latest...