Tag: Asia

China has announced bans on beards and burkas in its remote violence-wracked Xinjiang region as part of tighter 'anti-extremism' regulations ...

Face painted yellow and white with long braids draping her shoulders, a model in voluminous grey robes walks down the ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Ankara on Thursday for talks on the Syria conflict, just a day ...

China's President Xi Jinping will travel to Florida to meet US President Donald Trump April 6 to 7, Chinese foreign ...

Self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy was sentenced to 20 months in prison by a Cambodian court Thursday for accusing the ...

The Asian Tour is aiming to hold more tournaments in "golf-crazy" South Korea and Japan after striking a breakthrough deal ...

The debate surrounding US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has focused almost entirely on the Latino community, leaving other groups ...

One year after Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party was sworn in as Myanmar's first elected ...

Nine Hong Kong democracy activists appeared in court Thursday over the Umbrella Movement mass protests in a case they have ...

South Korea's ousted president Park Geun-Hye arrived at court Thursday for a hearing to decide whether she should be arrested ...

Houthi rebels in Yemen are threatening free movement into and out of the Red Sea with missiles, mines and other ...

Israeli military exports surged last year to $6.5 billion, a rise of 14 percent buoyed by increased defence budgets, the ...

Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said Wednesday his government was engaged in "very sensitive" talks with North Korea over nine ...

Chinese tech giant Tencent has spent $1.78bn (£1.4bn) on buying a 5% stake in electric carmaker Tesla. Tencent, best known ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD), Senyo Hosi has advised African entrepreneurs to think globally ...

Arab leaders gathered for an annual summit in Jordan Wednesday looking to overcome divisions on regional crises including the devastating ...

Exiled Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed vowed Wednesday to keep up the pressure on the government after it deployed troops ...

A nascent Rohingya militant group whose raids triggered a bloody crackdown by Myanmar's army called Wednesday for international peacekeepers to ...

Five things we learned after India defeated Australia 2-1 to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Dharamsala this week: Relations between ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has expressed alarm at the increased rate of illegal ...