Asia

Washington: China is denouncing interpretations of its military operations in the East and the South China Sea contained in a new US Defence Department...

Istanbul: Turkish war planes destroyed 98 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in Turkey and northern Iraq in nine air strikes on Friday,...

New York/Dhaka: Investigators probing the cyber heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank connected it on Friday to the hack at Sony Corp's...

Manila: The police force in Manila is so underfunded that officers say they have to buy their own bullets and it is not uncommon for funeral service cars to...

Jakarta: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for a review of a programme to develop 35 gigawatts of power-generating capacity by 2019 as the...

Beijing: The purported personal details of numerous Chinese business moguls and poltically-connected elite have been posted to an anonymous Twitter account,...

Beijing: China's state prosecutor on Friday formally charged a former senior aide to retired president Hu Jintao with taking bribes, illegally obtaining...

Dhaka: Clashes broke out between activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and police in several Bangladesh cities on Wednesday after the execution of the top Islamist...

Malaysia: Malaysia on Thursday said the two more pieces of plane debris found in South Africa and Mauritius "almost certainly" belonged to its...

Bangkok: Thailand on Wednesday defended its curbs on freedom of expression at a review of its rights record by the UN Human Rights Council, saying the...