Tag: Asia

At least 11 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded on Saturday in air strikes on a central Syrian village ...

Two child protection officers have been arrested for alleged links with a trafficking gang that ran illegal adoption centres in ...

China says it will increase military spending by about 7% this year, just days after Donald Trump outlined a boost ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to visit Japan, China and South Korea later this month to discuss Pyongyang's ...

North Korea warned Saturday that the US will "pay dearly" if it relists Pyongyang as a state sponsor of terrorism ...

China will raise defence spending by "around seven percent" this year as it guards against "outside meddling" in its disputed ...

Malaysia on Saturday rejected claims it may have violated sanctions imposed by the United Nations on North Korea, after a ...

More than a week of UN-sponsored peace talks ended in Geneva on Friday, the main opposition group said, calling the ...

Seven people, among them five children, have been hospitalised over the past two days near Iraq's Mosul with injuries from ...

China counts more than 100 billionaires among its top legislators, with 209 of the richest holding wealth nearly equivalent to ...

Malaysia released on Friday a North Korean suspect in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader and ...

The UN on Friday warned that a range of serious abuses, including torture, appear to remain widespread in Sri Lanka ...

Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that his government intends to build a strong diplomatic and economic partnership with Qatar, and, ...

The Chinese Super League will take another step towards global recognition when it returns this week, boasting some of the ...

Three Thai soldiers were gunned down in front of terrified shoppers at busy evening market in Thailand's conflict-riddled 'Deep South', ...

The only North Korean arrested over the Cold War-style assassination of Kim Jong-Nam was released Friday as diplomatic wrangling between ...

Qatar's population has swollen by almost 40 percent since the emirate was chosen to the host the 2022 World Cup, ...

The United Nations rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar called Thursday for the creation of a Commission of Inquiry (COI), ...

Iraqi Kurdish forces deployed at a state-run oil company Thursday, temporarily halting pumping through a pipeline that is one of ...