Asia

Beijing: The top official in China's northern province of Hebei, one of the country's most polluted, has vowed to use the staging of the 2022 Winter...

Yonaguni(Japan): Japan on Monday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a permanent intelligence gathering post close to Taiwan and a...

Kabul: Taliban militants fired explosives into Afghanistan's parliament compound on Monday as the top intelligence official and caretaker minister of...

Bangkok: Thailand's election commission said on Monday it expected 80 per cent of eligible voters to turn out for an August 7 referendum on a...

Dhaka: The new governor of Bangladesh's central bank has sent formal letters to the New York Fed, as well as central bank and money laundering chiefs in...

Sydney: Australian actor Hugh Jackman turned real-life action hero at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Saturday, when he helped his son and another man to safety...

New York: A New York-based Chinese Internet activist told Reuters on Friday that China's authorities have detained three members of his family in...

Seoul: A Korean-American man detained in North Korea has confessed to stealing military secrets and plotting subversion with South Koreans, the North's...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday called China's military deployments on the South China Sea...

Washington: The United States hopes to talk with China and address its concern about the possible deployment of the THAAD missile defence system that...