Asia

Tokyo/Shanghai: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seeking to allay concern he would divert attention from fixing a fragile economy to revising a pacifist...

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's eldest son was on Monday arrested over alleged financial irregularities in connection with a...

Phnom Penh: Thousands of people gathered for the funeral of prominent government critic and activist Kem Ley in Cambodia's capital on Monday, a day...

Beijing: The South China Sea is not on the agenda and should not be discussed at a major summit between Asian and European leaders in Mongolia at the end of...

Singapore: A rare bank robbery in Singapore has sparked a social media debate on whether the country's low crime rates made authorities and society in...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's conservative coalition will win enough seats to govern in its own right after a cliffhanger July 2...

Dhaka: The United States on Sunday offered its expertise to Bangladesh in bolstering its counterterrorism capabilities following a string of terror attacks,...

Tokyo: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory on Sunday in an election for parliament's upper house, media exit polls...

Kabul: Afghan forces are suffering rising levels of battlefield casualties this year after unprecedented numbers of police and soldiers were killed and...

PHNOM PENH: A critic of the Cambodian government was shot dead in the capital on Sunday at a time of rising political tension between Prime Minister Hun Sen...