A Pakistani Islamist group said on Friday it will call off protests over the acquittal of a Christian woman who was facing hanging on blasphemy...

Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, who was also known as the godfather of Taliban, was killed in a gun attack in the garrison city...

Fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, has not given up on trying to obtain immunity from the Malaysian government, said former finance minister...

Indonesia's transport minister removed on Wednesday the technical director of the Lion Air airline and several of its technicians after the crash of one of...

The outcry in the United States demonising Saudi Arabia over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul threatens US-Saudi...

A principal of a private school in Pakistan was sentenced to a total of 105 years in prison on Tuesday by a local court for...

South Korea’s spy agency has observed preparations by North Korea for international inspections at several of its nuclear and missile test sites, the Yonhap news...

Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Tuesday to begin by November the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape...

The Malaysian government will not give in to the demands of taxi drivers who want ride-hailing services, in particular Grab, to be banned, Transport Minister...

An Afghan army helicopter carrying 25 people crashed in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing all those on board, officials said.The aircraft crashed due to "bad...

Malaysia's Ministry of Home Affairs has obtained information on the latest whereabouts of fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, Minister Muhyiddin...

China says it will allow trading in products made from endangered tigers and rhinos under “special circumstances,” reversing a previous ban and bringing condemnation from...

Russia's only aircraft carrier was damaged while undergoing repairs in the north of the country after the floating dock holding it sank in the early...

Sri Lanka's rival prime ministers battled to tempt lawmakers from opposing sides Tuesday as they sought numbers to swing any parliamentary vote of confidence to...

An Indian couple who died after falling 800 feet in an area with steep terrain in California's Yosemite National Park last week were apparently taking...

On the first state visit to China by a Japanese leader in 11 years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Xi Jinping announced 50 joint...

An Indonesia Lion Air plane with 189 passengers and crew that plunged into the Java Sea on Monday is the deadliest aviation disaster since 1997....

Malaysia's new government is set to deliver an austerity-flavoured first budget on Friday, having unearthed more debt left behind by the previous administration, and needing...

Chinese authorities hate the word "independence." But whether spoken by fringe figures in Hong Kong or marchers demonstrating in Taiwan, they are hearing it all...

The sudden death of billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha strips his King Power duty-free brand of its streetwise and connected frontman, challenging his heirs to secure the...

An Indonesian man has described how Jakarta's notorious traffic inadvertently saved his life on Monday (Oct 29) after he arrived too late to catch the...

Sri Lanka's Petroleum Minister and cricket legend Arjuna Ranatunga was arrested on Monday for the first violent incident amidst the on going political crisis in...

Sri Lankan parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya warned Monday that the country's political crisis could turn into a "bloodbath" unless lawmakers were allowed to resolve a...

An Indonesian Lion Air plane that crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta on Monday had a technical problem on a previous...

China on Monday said it was closely monitoring "the political turmoil" in Sri Lanka but maintained that it is the internal affairs of the country...

Iran’s parliament approved a government economic reshuffle on Saturday, days before new U.S. sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports take effect, after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani...

Flamboyant drag queens and horned devils rubbed shoulders with Christian pastors and supporters Saturday as tens of thousands of people took part in Taipei’s Gay...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group killed at least 40 U.S.-backed Syrian fighters, captured several alive and regained areas it...

AFP KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP-Jiji) — Afghans risked their lives to vote in legislative elections in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, after the Taliban-claimed killing of a...

A Lion Air flight with 188 people on board crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday in a...

The constitutional crisis gripping Sri Lanka since President Maithripala Sirisena’s shock dismissal of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe worsened on Sunday when newly-appointed Prime Minister Mahinda...

He is nine years old, but his mother says he behaves as if he is still in kindergarten.In his free time, Tao Youqi would like...

India's capital was covered in a blanket of choking grey air and pollution on Saturday, with government data showing air quality slumping to "severe" or...

The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany said at a summit on Saturday that Syrians must lead efforts to make peace in their war-torn...

Erdogan on Friday called for the extradition of the 18 Saudi nationals who authorities say were involved in the murder of Khashoggi.Saudi Arabia will prosecute...

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday suspended the parliament till November 16 after sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe sought an emergency session to prove...

China's Ambassador Yao Jing Friday said that the financial support provided for the USD 50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was not a burden on...

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis warned Arab leaders on Saturday that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul "must concern...

When a Chinese garlic farmer's dream of flying an airplane didn't pan out, he decided to build one instead.The full-scale replica of the Airbus A320...

 President Maithripala Sirisena installed Sri Lanka's controversial former strongman leader Mahinda Rajapakse as the country's new prime minister on Friday (Oct 26), in a shock...

The Negeri Sembilan palace on Friday (Oct 26) stripped former prime minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor of their Datuk Seri titles.Najib was...

The Saudi Arabian government has said that it has nothing to do with the RM2.6 billion donation allegedly received by former prime minister Najib Razak,...

China has not asked for military access to Pakistan's Chinese-funded, deepwater port of Gwadar, a senior Pakistani rear admiral said today, amid persistent speculation in...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Saudi Arabia on Friday to disclose who gave the order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as well the location of...

In a dramatic political development in Sri Lanka, former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa was on Friday sworn in as the new Prime Minister by President Maithripala...

Cathay Pacific Airways on Wednesday (Oct 24) said that it has discovered unauthorised access to some of its information system containing the passenger data of...

The Japanese journalist who was held hostage by militants in Syria for 40 months told Reuters on Wednesday (Oct 24) he was "happy" to be...

A genocide is still underway against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, a UN fact-finding team said Wednesday (Oct 24) as it presented a report at the Security...

BEIJING: China's army will take action "at any cost" to foil attempts to separate the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own,...

On Wednesday (Oct 24), I rode on a bus across the world’s longest sea bridge - which connects Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China -...

Saudi Arabia's crown prince on Wednesday denounced the murder of critic Jamal Khashoggi as a "heinous crime", insisting the kingdom was cooperating with Turkish authorities...

Sri Lankan police on Tuesday won permission from a court to ask Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei to help recover data from a phone used by...

Pakistan is hoping to resume efforts to improve ties with India after the national elections in India next year, the country's Prime Minister Imran Khan...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for the trial in Istanbul of the Saudi suspects in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi will produce the truth about what happened.He also pledged that mechanisms...

China said on Tuesday that its first internal security cooperation agreement with India will provide an institutional guarantee to combat trans-border crimes, but remained defiant...

Saudi Arabia has agreed to give Pakistan USD 3 billion in foreign currency support for a year and a further loan worth up to USD...

 China warned on Tuesday it would “never accept any form of blackmail” after US president Donald Trump said his decision to withdraw from a nuclear...

"Both ignorant and malicious" was how the official China Daily newspaper recently described comments by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, offering a stinging insight...

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad admitted that being Malaysia's leader in today’s political scenario was more difficult and challenging as he was no longer leading a...

North and South Korea and the U.N. Command agreed on Monday (Oct 22) to withdraw firearms and guard posts in the demilitarised zone village of...

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck 104km off Taiwan's coastal city of Hualien on Tuesday (Oct 23), the island's weather bureau said, with no immediate reports of...

It’s now possible to check in automatically at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport using facial recognition technology, part of an ambitious rollout of facial recognition systems in...

India should move to resolve the Kashmir issue through dialogue, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Monday.His remarks came a day after six civilians were...

The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside Riyadh's Istanbul consulate was "savagely planned", Turkey's ruling party spokesman said on Monday, the first official indication...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan left for Saudi Arabia to attend an investment conference boycotted by other leaders over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi...

Corruption in Malaysia has become a thing of the past following the change in government, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.In an interview with television station...

Nearly 170 Afghans were killed or wounded in poll-related violence on Saturday, official figures showed, as the legislative election turned chaotic with many polling centers...

Southeast Asian nations seeking to combat the threat of militancy have agreed to share intelligence, Singapore’s defense minister said Saturday, as he warned of a...

Sri Lanka’s military said that it will recall its commander leading a U.N. peacekeeping contingent in Mali after the world body asked him to be...

As Saudi Arabia faced intensifying international scepticism over its story about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a senior government official laid out a new...

At least 18 people died and 160 were injured when a train derailed in northeastern Taiwan on Sunday, authorities said.Several carriages were overturned in the...

Twenty-two people are trapped in a coal mine in China after a rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel, officials said Sunday.The spontaneous fracturing...

Anwar Ibrahim called on Malay children to master the Chinese language as it was an important regional 'economic language'."Mastery of other languages must be supported...

One year after Philippine armed forces defeated Islamic State-aligned militants in a months-long siege that devastated the southern city of Marawi, a new contest for...

A billion-dollar hydroelectric dam development in Indonesia that threatens the habitat of the world's rarest great ape has sparked fresh concerns about the impact of...

Allegedly aimed at busting visa abusers and illegal migrants, a Thai police operation called "X-Ray Outlaw Foreigner" has raised questions about racial profiling and fears...

A woman worker of a software firm in Pakistan was told to either stop wearing hijab at workplace or resign, in perhaps the first incident...

Turkey vowed Saturday to reveal all details of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after Saudi Arabia admitted he was killed at its Istanbul consulate,...

Nearly 170 Afghans were killed or wounded in poll-related violence on Saturday, officials said, as the legislative election turned chaotic with many polling centres opening...

Multiple explosions rocked polling centres across Kabul on Saturday, as voters cast their ballots in long-delayed legislative elections.Voters were seen fleeing a school in the...

Afghans will return to the polls for parliamentary elections on Saturday, hoping to bring change to a corrupt government that has lost nearly half the...

A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India on Friday evening, killing at least 60 people and...

Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was slapped with 45 charges in court on Friday (Oct 19) in a RM114 million (US$27.4 million)...

Pakistan may not have to approach the IMF for loans as it has received “positive” responses from some “friendly countries”, Prime Minister Imran Khan has...

General Abdul Raziq once boasted he had survived "countless" Taliban attempts to kill him. On Thursday the Afghan terror group finally succeeded when an assassin...

Pakistan said on Friday that India's decision to buy S-400 missile defence system from Russia will further destabilise stability in the region and renewed the...

Saudi Arabia on Saturday admitted that critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul, more than two weeks after his disappearance tipped the...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured before being decapitated inside Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul, pro-government daily Yeni Safak reported Wednesday, saying it had heard audio...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they had killed the "mastermind" behind an attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz last...

Malaysian Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali said on Wednesday (Oct 17) that the country's current economic situation is not conducive for reviving the so-called...

Eighteen people were killed and dozens injured at a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea on Wednesday when at least one attacker set...

A Chinese mining company has claimed to have successfully test-fired a supersonic missile, touted as a potential competitor to the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos missile,...

A bomb placed under a sofa killed an Afghan election candidate on Wednesday, officials said, as deadly violence escalates ahead of the October 20 parliamentary...

A court in Thailand has sentenced a former Buddhist monk known for his jet-set lifestyle to 16 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl...

Bangladeshi newspaper editors formed a human chain in the heart of the national capital on Monday to protest a newly enacted digital security law, which...

North Korea, South Korea and the United Nations Command (UNC) held their first three-way talks on Tuesday to discuss demilitarizing the border as the two...

China on Tuesday said there will be more projects planned under the so-called China-Pakistan Economic Corridor or CPEC project amid concerns over Pakistan's rising debt...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who arrived in Riyadh Tuesday for talks with King Salman on missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, will also meet the...

A whopping Rs 460 crore worth of transactions were made through three bank accounts of a man who died months before these fake accounts were...

Former Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak was questioned for about six hours by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Tuesday (Oct 16), in relation to...

The United States is seeking “regime change” in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, adding that the current U.S. administration is the most hostile that...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sincere and really means to abandon nuclear weapons, South Korean President Moon Jae-in told a French newspaper, adding...

Jordan and Syria have agreed to reopen a vital border crossing between the two countries, three years after the commercial lifeline fell to rebel groups...

Outgoing Maldives President Abdulla Yameen says disappearing ink and specially treated ballot papers were to blame for his heavy election defeat last month.The strongman leader...

The bodies of nine climbers killed on Nepal's Mount Gurja were retrieved on Sunday (Oct 14) as rescuers tried to piece together what led to...

Three Myanmar nationals were killed after being buried in a landslide in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands on Sunday morning (Oct 14). The victims, believed to be farm...

At first glance, the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul is just the latest crisis to strain relations between the...

An Indian yoga instructor, who repeatedly molested his student, had his jail sentence enhanced from nine months to a year, along with additional punishment of...

The death toll in a bomb attack on an Afghan election rally has risen to at least 22 people, officials said Sunday, as the country...

Nine members of a South Korean climbing expedition were killed after a violent snowstorm swept them off a cliff on Nepal's Mount Gurja, one of...

At least eight climbers from a South Korean expedition have died on Nepal's Mount Gurja after their camp was devastated by a violent snowstorm, officials...

The US would be forced to take "appropriate measures" against anyone who undermines a peaceful transfer of power in the Maldives, a top state department...

Pakistan on Saturday warned of "10 surgical strikes" against India in response to a single such attack, in the latest war of words between the...

The minute I stepped on board the plane, I instantly felt transported into another world.North Korean music concerts played out from the in-flight entertainment screens...

The United States needs more tanker aircraft squadrons to compete with the increasingly powerful Chinese military, Voice of America reported on October 10.“The challenges in...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un intends to abolish all nuclear weapons, materials and facilities to achieve “complete” denuclearization, South Korean President Moon Jae In,...

Lt Gen Asim Munir was appointed on Wednesday as the new chief of Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI, the Army's media wing announced.Munir, who previously...

Chinese tech giant Alibaba warned users on Wednesday that they could be at risk from making cashless transactions or paying bills with its Alipay application...

The Malaysian government has decided to abolish the death penalty and a proposed Bill is expected to be tabled at the next parliament sitting, local...

A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea's New Britain island on Thursday (Oct 11), briefly triggering a tsunami alert before authorities gave the all...

The Washington Post reports that U.S. intelligence intercepts outlined a Saudi plan to detain a prominent journalist and critic who disappeared a week ago.The Post,...

Tarique Rahman, the fugitive son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, was sentenced to life and 19 others were given death sentence by a...

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Wednesday (Oct 10) to enhance national security, warning her government will not submit to Chinese suppression as Beijing ramps...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Riyadh to prove its claim that Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since...

Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday (Oct 9) refused to say why the city had denied a visa to a leading Financial Times journalist, despite escalating...

Seplaba Talokalo wants nothing more than what he knows would shatter his heart. A miracle that would guide him to his brother, Ronald. All he wants...

Pakistan has not yet formally approached the International Monetary Fund for financial assistance, but if bailout talks get underway this week, the goal will be...

 China on Tuesday successfully launched two remote sensing satellites to conduct electromagnetic environmental probes, state-run media reported.The satellites, both belonging to the Yaogan-32 family, were...

 The confirmed death toll from the devastating earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island neared 2,000 on Monday, but thousands more are believed unaccounted for...

China will sell 48 high-end military drones to its "all-weather ally" Pakistan in what a military observer said will be the largest deal of its...

The first phase of local council elections began Monday in Indian-controlled Kashmir amid tight security and a separatist-sponsored shutdown.Authorities deployed tens of thousands of additional...

The Taliban on Monday vowed to target government security forces in upcoming parliamentary elections, as US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with Afghan leaders to...

Chinese authorities said Monday they are investigating the former president of Interpol for bribery and other crimes and indicated that political transgressions may have also...

Children in the Indonesian city of Palu began returning to school on Monday (Oct 8) to tidy up their classrooms and to help gather data...

Residents of Olympic bid city Tokyo celebrate while holding Tokyo signs after the announcement of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games host city at Komazawa Olympic...

Two tourists were killed and three others injured in crossfire during a shootout between rival gangs near a mall in Bangkok on Sunday night (Oct...

As Malaysia’s new government wrestles with the economic legacy left by its predecessor, it has turned to a former finance minister for guidance.Daim Zainuddin, 80,...

Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, seeking answers as the death...

Turkish authorities believe that prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, was killed inside the...

Wearing masks to ward off the stench of death, Indonesian soldiers trudge over mountains of mud and concrete, moving slowly as they poke and prod...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he would coordinate closely with Japan during denuclearisation talks with North Korea and promised to raise...

A two-vehicle collision on Saturday (Oct 6) involving a trailer and a car along the North-South Expressway (NSE) in the Malaysian state of Perak resulted...

A declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War could be a “slippery slope” to questioning the need for the U.S. troop presence in South Korea,...

India will buy 9 million barrels of Iranian oil in November, two industry sources said, indicating the world’s third-biggest oil importer will continue purchasing crude...

There was no sign of picnic-goers or tourists along the Teluk Kemang beach in the heart of Port Dickson on Friday morning (Oct 5). The beach,...

Pakistan Army Chief of Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited China and met with Xi Jinping on September 19. He calmed rumors in the media...

As the trend to keep and display exotic animals in cafes in the Cambodian capital grows in popularity, wildlife experts have warned that the animal...

Tokyo fishmongers gathered before dawn Saturday (Oct 6) for one final tuna auction at the world-famous Tsukiji market before it closes its doors and moves...

A South Korean government delegation arrived in North Korea on Thursday for a joint celebration of the anniversary of a 2007 summit and to possibly...