Tag: Asia

Convicted paedophiles will have their passports cancelled to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again under tough new laws which ...

Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh Tuesday packing winds of up to 117 kilometres per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated hundreds of ...

Cambodia's government has ramped up use of the courts to harass political activists and rights defenders ahead of elections, Amnesty ...

At least 180 people have now been confirmed dead in the worst flooding to hit Sri Lanka for 14 years. ...

Bangladesh has evacuated nearly 300,000 people as Cyclone Mora barrelled towards its southeastern coast at speeds of more than 85 ...

Qatar has deported a Saudi human rights activist who was on his way to Norway where he hoped to seek ...

A Taiwanese steel firm behind a toxic waste dump that killed tonnes of fish in Vietnam last year started operations ...

Nepal's government unveiled it's annual budget on Monday focused on allocating funds to newly elected local units and sustaining its ...

India must reverse a trend of falling women's participation in the job market if it is to achieve its ambition ...

Violent protests erupted in Pakistan Monday as crippling electricity cuts left hundreds of thousands of people without power in soaring ...

India on Monday ruled out any cricket series against Pakistan until "cross-border terrorism" stops. The Indian and Pakistani cricket boards ...

Israel's government on Sunday approved plans to install a cable car to Jerusalem's Old City, a project likely to anger ...

US Homeland Security John Kelly said Sunday that he was considering banning laptop computers on international flights into and out ...

Afridun Amu, the first competitor to represent Afghanistan at the World Surfing Games, had no illusions about his chances of ...

Emergency teams rushed food and water Sunday to half a million Sri Lankans displaced by the island's worst flooding for ...

Authorities clamped a curfew across most of Indian-administered Kashmir for the first day of the Muslim Ramadan festival Sunday and ...

Bangladesh on Sunday reinstalled a controversial statue deemed un-Islamic by religious hardliners on the grounds of the Supreme Court, just ...

China on Sunday denied the Pentagon's charge that an encounter between Chinese fighters and a US surveillance plane over the ...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a fierce attack against regional rival Saudi Arabia, saying it was being pumped ...

After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her  source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – ...