Asia

Hong Kong: About one in six people in Hong Kong want the special administrative region of China to become independent of the mainland, a university poll has...

Kabul: Civilians are being killed and wounded in record numbers in Afghanistan, the United Nations reported on Monday, just days after one of the deadliest...

Seoul: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has criticised South Korea's move to deploy an advanced US anti-missile defence system to counter threats from...

Kathmandu: Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Oli resigned on Sunday, nine months after coming to power and minutes before parliament was to vote on a no...

Vientiane: Southeast Asian nations failed to find common ground on maritime disputes in the South China Sea on Sunday after Cambodia stuck to its demand the...

Kabul: Relatives of some of those killed in a big suicide attack in Kabul searched through a bloodied assortment of belongings on Sunday left after the twin...

Beijing: China has unveiled the world's largest amphibious aircraft to fight forest fires and perform marine missions, the latest breakthrough in the...

Bangkok: Two 8-year-old girls in Thailand have been charged for violating campaigning rules ahead of a contentious referendum next month after tearing voter...

Phnom Penh: Thousands of people attended a funeral procession in Cambodia's capital on Sunday for a prominent government critic, Kem Ley, whose killing...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered all agencies directly under his watch to open their records to the public as part of his promise to...