Tag: Asia

Qatar and the Philippines have signed trade agreements worth $200 million during the final leg of President Rodrigo Duterte's Gulf ...

Every morning, hundreds of men converge on a dry lakebed in a remote corner of Ethiopia, where they cleave the ...

Nepal's government is trying to tackle rising pollution levels in the smog-choked Kathmandu Valley, but standing in the way is ...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Saturday urged North Korea to abide by UN resolutions and stop its pursuit of ...

Vice President Mike Pence will arrive in Seoul Sunday, flying into a geopolitical maelstrom amid a possible North Korean nuclear ...

North Korea has warned the US not to take provocative action in the region, saying it is “ready to hit ...

A suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 killed dozens of people. Western ...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of fabricating a suspected chemical weapons attack that prompted an unprecedented US ...

With more than a million Filipino workers spread across Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, it is small wonder that President ...

American fighter Holly Holm, who knocked out top mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey in her prime, will headline UFC's ...

Bangladeshi villagers buried the leader of a banned Islamist extremist outfit and two of his aides early Thursday, hours after ...

Shares in Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific were up Thursday, a day after the airline announced a management shakeup on ...

Chinese exports surged 16.4 percent year-on-year to $180.6 billion in March, official data showed Thursday, in a sign of stabilisation ...

The US PGA Tour confirmed Thursday that South Korea's stop on their new three-event Asian swing later this year will ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday pulled back from a vow to place his country's flag on an island in ...

Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai became only the sixth person to receive honorary Canadian citizenship Wednesday, before advocating in a ...

Guinea has seized a haul of shark fins and carcasses from Chinese ships fishing illegally off the coast of the ...

The bus stops of Pyongyang have no advertisements. Instead of exhortations to buy an energy drink or sign up to ...

Islamic militants who landed on a Philippine tourist island triggering deadly clashes with security forces had planned to stage a ...

Taiwan has become the first Asian country to completely ban the eating of dog and cat meat. New laws passed ...