Asia

Jakarta: Indonesian President Joko Widodo pleased market reform advocates by bringing home the World Bank's managing director to be finance minister and...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the treatment of children in detention after the airing of video...

Vientiane: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he supported the resumption of talks between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea,...

Kabul: IS militant group is threatening more attacks against Afghanistan's Hazara minority after Saturday's suicide blasts in Kabul that killed 80...

Dhaka: Police in Bangladesh killed nine militants on Tuesday who were believed to have been plotting an attack similar to the one on a cafe on July 1 that...

Sagamihara (Japan): A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo early on Tuesday and killed 19 patients as they...

Jakarta: Indonesia will execute several people including a Pakistani on Friday, a Pakistani embassy official said, its first executions since last year...

Vientiane: China scored a diplomatic victory on Monday as Southeast Asian nations dropped a US-backed proposal to mention a landmark international court...

Beijing: A military court in China on Monday jailed for life a former top military officer for corruption, stripping him of his title of general and seizing...

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed big reforms to tackle chronic economic flaws on Monday and defended his pursuit of a deadly...