Tag: Asia

Myanmar on Saturday rejected the UN rights council's decision to investigate allegations that security officers have murdered, raped and tortured ...

Israel has ignored a United Nations resolution demanding it halt settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territory that was criticized ...

An 18-year-old Bahraini died Friday, nearly two months after he was shot in the head near a top opposition cleric's ...

A campaign for the education of children with disabilities has taken off with over 16 schools in Ghana expected to ...

Bilal Abduljabbar clambers onto the back of an Iraqi army truck with his two teenage children to start the final ...

The UN rights council agreed Friday to "urgently" launch an investigation into violations against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, including torture, murder ...

Caretaker Deepak Shrestha padlocked shut the quake-ravaged remains of the Trailokya Mohan Narayan temple in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to keep ...

China is not militarising the disputed South China Sea, the country's premier insisted in Australia on Friday, claiming defence equipment ...

Taiwan's constitutional court began hearing a landmark case Friday that could make the island the first place in Asia to ...

A spike in water temperature lasting only days bleached all the coral in a South China Sea atoll, and killed ...

More than 400,000 Afghan children are expected to drop out of school this year in the face of growing insecurity ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he was open to sharingBeijing in flashpoint South China Sea waters over which Manila ...

Yu Dabao struck in the first half as Marcello Lippi's China stunned South Korea 1-0 to keep their slim World ...

When the Islamic State group controlled eastern Mosul, playing music was a crime punishable by lashes. Today, music stall owner ...

African leaders have been called upon to institute and implement pragmatic programmes that will positively reflect in the lives of ...

China's defence minister will arrive in Nepal later Tuesday for talks on joint military exercises, a meeting that will be ...

Hong Kong will select a new leader on Sunday in a vote skewed towards Beijing that has once more opened ...

Two ailing Malaysian seamen held hostage by Filipino Muslim militants for eight months were found Thursday aboard a boat adrift ...

A Cambodian court on Thursday jailed a former soldier for life for the brazen daytime shooting of a strident government ...

As many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have died in the last few months of the fighting The United Nations ...