Asia

Bangkok: A piece of suspected plane wreckage found off the east coast of southern Thailand on Saturday was unlikely to belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight...

Davos: Confident of pushing GDP growth higher and continuing the reforms agenda, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said one main reform which is...

Doha: Afghanistan's Taliban want to be removed from a UN blacklist before considering rejoining peace talks aimed at ending a 15-year civil war, a...

YANGON: Myanmar began releasing the first of about 100 prisoners on Friday, many of them political detainees, days before a parliament dominated by...

Geneva: The world must back a criminal prosecution of North Korea's leaders as there has been no improvement in human rights there in the two years...

Bangkok: A draft constitution for army-run Thailand to be unveiled this month will be "strong medicine", the constitution panel head said on...

Sydney: Conservationists in Australia's oldest Antarctic outpost have scraped away a hundred years of snow and ice to unearth items, from bullets to a...

Kabul: Afghanistan will hold postponed parliamentary elections in October, the top election official said on Monday, after last June's deadline to...

Jakarta: Another person has died from injuries sustained in last week's militant attack in Indonesia's capital, police officials said on Sunday,...

Taipei/Beijing:Taiwan should abandon its "hallucinations" about pushing for independence, as any moves towards it would be a "poison",...