Myanmar authorities must investigate a video showing men in military uniforms viciously beating handcuffed detainees suspected of being ethnic rebel fighters, rights groups said Sunday. The video's...
With a fiery new bowler named Fizz leading the young guns and all-rounder Mushfiqur Rahim the old guard, Bangladesh are aiming to leave their mark on the Champions Trophy where they are appearing for...
Tanzanian police said Saturday that they had arrested two morgue employees in Dar es Salaam after they admitted to cutting open a dead man's corpse and stealing the drugs hidden in his stomach. "The...
Hundreds of monks and supporters of Myanmar's ultra-nationalist Ma Ba Tha movement gathered in a Yangon monastery Saturday, in a defiant meeting days after Buddhist authorities banned their network,...
Militants fighting under the black flag of the Islamic State group have turned a southern city into a battleground, and triggered warnings by President Rodrigo Duterte of a potential IS caliphate....
Apple opened its first Southeast Asia store in Singapore on Saturday, drawing hundreds of excited fans to the swanky two-storey site in the city's upmarket shopping district. Located on the affluent...
Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin alleged that ‘galamsey queen’, Asia Huang was also into armed robbery. He made this allegation while speaking on Kumasi-based Abusua FM....
Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yammin has urged officers of the Bureau of National Investigations to visit classified files of Asia Huang for more incriminating evidence against the...
Dozens of relatives of Islamic State fighters were killed on Friday in new US-led strikes on Syria, just hours after the UN urged nations striking the jihadists to protect civilians. Bombing raids by...
The UN on Friday urged all nations bombing jihadist targets in Syria to better distinguish between civilian and military targets, following reports that US-led coalition strikes killed dozens of...
Branded as Asia's most heavily-armed drug dealers, the China-backed ethnic Wa rebels have emerged as key players in Myanmar's peace process, a development seen as strengthening Beijing's influence...
The alleged hack on Qatar's state news agency may have lasted just four hours, but the impact on already tense ties between Gulf rivals could last a lot longer. Doha launched an inquiry and went into...
Some African leaders have reiterated the need for the continent to learn from the successes of Asia to speed up economic development. The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwunmi...
With its battered facades, pulverised houses and skeletons of buildings, one of the world's oldest cities, Aleppo, has been utterly devastated by the war in Syria. Now, in Germany, scholars are...
Heavily pregnant at 16 after being raped by an insurgent commander, Malala was on the brink of committing suicide when she found refuge and hope in a women's shelter in Kabul. The non-descript...
Bangladesh Friday removed a controversial statue which religious radicals claim represents an "un-Islamic" Greek goddess from outside the country's highest court. Work to take down the statue, which...
US-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed at least 35 civilians in an eastern Syrian town held by the Islamic State group, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the...
More than a year after a long-mulled reunion finally materialized, rock greats Guns N' Roses on Thursday extended their tour in North America again. The group -- which starts a European leg in...
Buoyant trading in New York saw Wall Street set fresh records on Thursday, with US stocks recording their sixth consecutive positive finish. European markets were mainly in negative territory,...
Saudi Arabia's largest telecommunications firm said Thursday it will set up a $500-million venture capital fund to invest in start-up companies. As part of a wideranging economic diversification plan...
