Tag: Asia

Taiwan’s parliament has approved a bill banning the slaughter of cats and dogs for human consumption. The bill also prohibits ...

It has taken years of meticulous planning but the 2017 Southeast Asian Games was forced to make a last-minute change ...

Muhammad Ashraf's eyes fill with tears, overwhelmed by grief and joy all at once, as he recounts being reunited with ...

The world´s largest mixed martial arts organisation is looking to knuckle its way into Asia amid warnings the move could ...

Nepal's government on Tuesday registered a new amendment bill to its controversial constitution in a bid to persuade all political ...

Hundreds of Syrian students gathered on Tuesday outside the United Nations headquarters in Damascus to protest last week's US strike ...

The blast happened in a city known for clashes between Kurds and Turkish security forces A large explosion has struck ...

Britain will try to move on from damaging allegations of sexism and bullying as they challenge with a new-look squad ...

A Chinese official who allegedly declined to smoke in front of Muslims in Xinjiang has been demoted for taking an ...

Players in the agric sector have made fresh appeals to develop other export yielding ventures to increase Ghana’s export revenue. ...

Myanmar has started shutting down three displacement camps in strife-torn Rakhine state, a senior official said Tuesday, although it was ...

A prominent Indonesian corruption investigator had acid thrown in his face by motorbike-riding assailants Tuesday in an attack activists believe ...

Five people including a Philippine police officer were killed Tuesday in clashes with 10 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrived Monday night in Saudi Arabia, where economic troubles forced the repatriation of thousands of his ...

leadership of the Gonjaland in the Northern region has declared war against illegal timber merchants and commercial charcoal burners whose ...

Pakistan is set to execute an Indian naval officer accused of being a spy, potentially ratcheting up tension between the ...

The United States, Mexico and Canada announced a joint bid to stage the 2026 World Cup on Monday, aiming to ...

Further sanctions will be considered against Russia over the "appalling" behaviour of the Syrian regime, Boris Johnson says. The foreign ...

The leaders of southern EU nations said Monday that a US missile strike on a Syrian air base in retaliation ...

Leading electronic music festival Ultra announced an expansion Monday to China and India, sensing a bright future for the booming ...