Tag: Asia

Mongolian businessman and martial arts expert Khaltmaa Battulga was sworn in as president Monday, vowing to revive the flagging economy ...

Sri Lanka's hardline monks on Monday broadened a growing campaign by the Buddhist clergy against the government, threatening street protests ...

For years as fighting raged in Syria's Aleppo, property agent Saer Daqaq had fleeing residents knocking at the door of ...

India began holding naval exercises with the United States and Japan off its south coast on Monday, seeking to forge ...

Cambodian ruling party MPs on Monday voted to effectively sever ties between the beleaguered opposition and its figurehead, as Prime ...

Iran has congratulated Iraq on its declared victory over the Islamic State jihadist group in Mosul and offered its help ...

With only meagre belongings stuffed into backpacks and duffel bags, tens of thousands of Myanmar migrants have streamed home across ...

Syria's government and opposition meet Monday for a seventh round of UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva with little expectation of ...

A ceasefire brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan brought quiet Sunday to frontlines in southern Syria ahead of ...

Pakistan on Sunday released 78 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said. "The fishermen were released ...

Qatar on Sunday announced it was establishing a committee to pursue compensation claims potentially worth billions of dollars over the ...

A ceasefire in southern Syria brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan began at noon local time on Sunday, ...

Vietnamese authorities have seized nearly three tonnes of ivory hidden among boxes of fruit, officials said Sunday, the latest haul ...

Thousands gathered on Sunday at the grave of a prominent Cambodian critic who was gunned down a year ago in ...

More than a month since the start of the diplomatic crisis gripping the Gulf, hopes of a swift resolution seem ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkey would never allow a Kurdish state in Syria near its border, and ...

A brash businessman with martial arts skills clinched Mongolia's first-ever presidential runoff election Saturday after his opponent conceded defeat in ...

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday urged Arab states to end their Qatar boycott, downplaying the odds of a ...

That Ghana is inviting the Chinese to mine bauxite at Atiwa and some other ore centres has made remarkable headlines ...

The decaying bodies of foreign jihadists are piling up among the ruins of Mosul where the last few dozen Islamic ...