Haikou, the capital city of the island province Hainan, announced it will take action to rein in the housing market, strengthening the management of home...

A Japanese rail company has defended a safety exercise that requires employees to sit beside tracks in tunnels as bullet trains speed by at 300...

Beijing ranks first among 22 Chinese cities in terms of business environment evaluation, Yicai.com has reported.According to the evaluation held by the National Development and...

Pakistan has banned the VIP culture at airports for "influential people" including politicians, judges and military officials as part of the new government's austerity plan,...

 The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Saad Erhabi, was killed in a strike on the group’s hideouts in Nangarhar province on Saturday night,...

The Malaysian government is considering implementing a soda tax to reduce sugar consumption and encourage healthy living in the country, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad...

Iran will argue Monday against renewed sanctions imposed by the United States, as a bitter legal battle between Tehran and Washington opens before the UN's...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday rejected the resignations of the intelligence chief and the interior and defense ministers, as the government faces fierce criticism...

SOKCHO, South Korea: Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans gathered excitedly Sunday (Aug 19) on the eve of their first meeting for nearly seven...

TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Captain Min Min, a Buddhist from Myanmar, looks on as a stream of Muslim Rohingya labourers zig-zag up narrow gangplanks hauling sacks of...

India deployed thousands of soldiers and dozens of helicopters to rescue people marooned by the worst floods in a century in the southern state of...

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on four Myanmar military and police commanders and two army units, accusing them of “ethnic cleansing” against Rohingya...

China's affinity for robots has created a booming industry, but its companies aren't overtaking their global competitors, a senior partner at consulting firm McKinsey &...

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Saturday (Aug 18) congratulated Pakistan's new prime minister Imran Khan, wishing him success in his new role.In a letter...

The Trump administration is ending funding for Syria stabilization projects as it moves to extricate the United States from the conflict, citing increased contributions from...

Two million Muslims gather in Saudi Arabia this week for the hajj as the annual pilgrimage becomes increasingly hi-tech with apps to help the faithful...

China has sacked a senior provincial official and is probing a former top drug regulator after a safety scandal at vaccine maker Changsheng Biotechnology Co....

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan on Friday defeated Shahbaz Sharif in a one-sided contest to become Pakistan's next prime minister after the grand opposition alliance fell apart...

The Sultan of Johor has been invited by Pope Francis to make a state visit to Vatican City, according to the ruler's latest Facebook post...

Two Southeast Asian women on trial for the February 2017 murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader, were ordered today by...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting at the Peace House at the truce village...

In April, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told U.S. senators that the social media site was hiring dozens more Burmese speakers to review hate speech posted...

At least three persons were killed and over 35 others, including children and women, injured in various incidents of aerial firing and firework displays by...

A Taliban assault on two adjacent checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed at least 30 soldiers and police, officials said on Wednesday, as life gradually returned...

Eighteen people were injured after a moderate earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale jolted southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities have said.The quake damaged...

An Indian Army jawan was killed on Saturday in firing and mortar shelling by the Pakistani troops in Rajouri sector of Line of Control (LoC)...

The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) will be organising professional communication courses at all 14 police training centres nationwide to improve the command of English among...

Tibet is likely to be a big winner in China’s latest infrastructure spending spree, as the government tries to boost connectivity in a remote region...

A former South Korean presidential contender was cleared of all charges Tuesday (Aug 14) in a case stemming from allegations he raped a female aide...

A Hong Kong independence activist is due to speak on Tuesday (Aug 14) at the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) despite pressure from Chinese officials...

Award-winning Bangladesh photographer Shahidul Alam was in jail on Monday, 10 days after being arrested following an interview with Al Jazeera about massive student demonstrations,...

The Hainan provincial government is planning to set time limits on the usage of land for various industries, expect for real estate, The Paper reported.The...

PML-N chief Shehbaz Sharif and chairman of the PPP Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari are among the candidates whose security deposit will be forfeited for failing to get...

A young Pakistani couple have been arrested for allegedly kissing and cuddling in a car in Islamabad, a media report said on Monday.The couple, aged...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo's choice of a conservative Muslim cleric as his running mate took many by surprise, but it underscored his determination to counter...

The rival Koreas announced Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae In will meet in Pyongyang sometime in...

Cross-legged in a windowless, almost pitch-black bamboo shack, the investigator pressed record on a video camera and asked the young Rohingya woman to describe the...

Intending to expand its influence on cross-border e-commerce, US third-party payment giant PayPal has been actively communicating with regulators to secure licenses in China for...

Nine people were killed and 15 injured in a blaze that broke out early Monday at a hospice for the terminally ill near Taiwan’s capital...

A Saudi-led Arab military coalition said on Friday it would investigate an airstrike that killed dozens of children in Yemen, an apparent shift of stance...

Authorities in northern China delayed the demolition of a massive mosque on Saturday (Aug 11) after thousands of people demonstrated to stop its destruction, local...

The Japan NewsThe Andean nation of Peru boasts civilizations spanning thousands of years. It is also a Pacific country increasingly active in forging relations with...

On top of leaping off a ridge with about 20kg of equipment, Jessica Goh has to manoeuvre from a height of 400 metres and attempt...

U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his spat with Turkey on Friday by imposing higher tariffs on metal imports, putting unprecedented economic pressure on a NATO...

KUANTAN, Pahang: A mother in Malaysia lost two of her sons in a drowning incident at the estuary of Sungai Balok on Friday (Aug 10).The...

U.S. trade pressure on China could push Beijing to speed up efforts to restructure its economy, some local analysts say.President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs...

Pakistan Prime Minister-in-waiting Imran Khan on Friday submitted a written apology and an affidavit to the election commission for violating the electoral code of conduct...

Indonesia does not have enough maximum security facilities to hold a dramatically increased number of extremists, who have either been convicted or are awaiting trial,...

Like the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, Turkey’s present financial collapse has been expected for years. The sloth of credit rating...

US forces launched airstrikes on Friday to counter a major Taliban assault on an Afghan provincial capital, where terrified residents cowered in their homes amid...

Israel struck targets in the Gaza Strip after dozens of rockets were launched Wednesday from the coastal territory ruled by the Islamic militant Hamas group,...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday will hear the case against Pakistan Prime Minister to be, Imran Khan for voting in full public...

Facebook and Prudential are among a number of multinational companies that have moved to a new Singapore office complex this year. But to call their...

The Malaysian government's plan to introduce a dress code for Muslim women in the workplace has sparked a backlash from women's rights groups, which accuse...

Speaking in Ankara on Wednesday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey will issue so-called panda bonds in China to “diversify its sources of...

Japan's Suzuki Motor, Mazda and Yamaha have admitted using false emissions data for some vehicles, the transport ministry said on Thursday (Aug 9), in the...

The legal woes of the once powerful Sharif family is mounting with a Pakistani anti-corruption court on Tuesday declaring PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif’s son-in-law a...

A stampede on Wednesday (Aug 8) among thousands of mourners at the funeral of a powerful southern Indian politician killed two people and injured 47,...

A powerful typhoon was churning towards Japan on Wednesday (Aug 8), prompting the nation's weather agency to warn of heavy rain and violent winds and...

In the seaside resort of Beidaihe in Hebei province, the temperature was a balmy 25 degrees Celsius on Thursday with occasional cooling showers.But in Beijing,...

Rescuers on Indonesia's quake-hit island of Lombok dug through the rubble of a mosque on Wednesday (Aug 8), hoping to reach the aunt of a...

In 2006, government agencies reported that more than 13,000 Filipino nurses left for countries such as Singapore, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. Not included in this number...

Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak was hit with new charges Wednesday linked to a multi-billion-dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat...

Siti Nurjanah is lucky to be alive. The 32-year-old survived the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked Lombok on Sunday (Aug 5), but she lost almost...

Thousands mourned in southern India on Tuesday (Aug 7) after the death of revered 94-year-old political leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi.But tensions were high with local television...

Hong Kong's stock market is set to welcome a pair of big new listings this week, but the overall investor mood is likely to remain...

North Korean state media on Monday urged the United States to drop sanctions, as South Korea said it was investigating nine cases of coal shipments...

Malaysian Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been given the green light to be discharged from Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital where he has been recovering from...

Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of jailed former-Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has regained consciousness but is still on ventilator, said Sharif's son Hussain Nawaz.Hussain informed that...

The death toll from a massive dam collapse in southern Laos has jumped to 31, officials said, with scores still missing weeks after the unprecedented...

Bangladeshi police fired tear gas on Sunday to disperse tens of thousands of students protesting for an eighth day to demand safer roads after two...

Chinese engineers say they have tested an aircraft based on sonic wave-riding technology and able to carry multiple nuclear warheads, which can elude all anti-missile...

A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 82 people and shaking neighboring Bali, one week after another...

China’s largest refiner, Sinopec, will delay making any purchases of U.S. oil for September amid concern that the Asian giant will slap tariffs on American...

A phone app and a database of more than 50 million voters were key weapons in the successful campaign of cricket legend Imran Khan in...

As Myanmar has announced plans to restructure the government-run entity Myanmar Timber Enterprise, or MTE, under private sector management, reports of illegal logging are surging,...

China’s – or, perhaps, more correctly, Xi Jinping’s – propagandists hail him as an exceptional leader. Yet with the country faced with several serious and...

Sri Lanka is very much a partner in China's ambitious One Belt One Road initiative, a Communist Party delegation said on Thursday.Chinese President Xi Jinping's...

Imran Khan, who is set to become Pakistan's new prime minister, has been summoned by the country's anti-graft body in connection with the misuse of...

A special court in Pakistan hearing the treason charges against former dictator Pervez Musharraf has scheduled the hearing of the high-profile case on August 20,...

Pakistan’s Prime Minister-elect Imran Khan is hoping to resolve issues with India during his five-year term, his aides said. A close aide told this newspaper...

Imran Khan has decided against inviting foreign leaders and celebrities to his oath-taking ceremony as Pakistan's new prime minister as he wants to keep the...

duplicate While talk of a trade war and the vulnerability of Chinese financial markets has dominated headlines in recent months, risks facing property developers have...

After exiting China eight years ago due to censorship and hacking, Google is tuning a mobile search app that would filter blacklisted search results in...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is expected to discuss the North Korea crisis with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his visit to Japan next week,...

At the very beginning, a few important disclosures – I am a Bengali Assamese, an identity I wear with pride; and this is not a...

Iran's parliament plans a special session to question President Hassan Rouhani about the plummeting currency and struggling economy.The parliament's website said Wednesday that Rouhani must...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington,  July 25, 2018.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...

China on Tuesday successfully launched an optical remote sensing satellite, as part of its high-resolution Earth observation project which will also provide data for the...

Nearly 1,20,000 people have been displaced after floods submerged a vast swathe of southeastern Myanmar, killing 11 people and sending panicked residents fleeing for dry...

North and South Korea held military talks to build trust on Tuesday (Jul 31), while the United States detected renewed activity at a North Korean...

Saudi Arabia has reassured Arab allies it will not endorse any Middle East peace plan that fails to address Jerusalem’s status or refugees’ right of...

Indian-American Seema Nanda, who took over as the CEO of the opposition Democratic National Committee, has vowed to fight for the "soul of the country"...

Iran's currency hit a record low on Sunday of 100,000 rials to the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and the imminent return of full...

Jailed former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif needs to be immediately shifted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Islamabad from Adiala Jail...

Imran Khan will be sworn in as Pakistan's new Prime Minister before the country's independence day on August 14, his party has announced as it...

Imran Khan on Monday said that he will take oath as Pakistan's Prime Minister on August 11, according to a media report.The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI),...

Surging floodwaters have killed at least 10 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes across swathes of Myanmar, a government official said on...

A Syrian Kurdish group said on Saturday it had decided with the government to “chart a roadmap to a democratic and decentralized Syria,” but there...

Cambodia’s ruling party won an expected victory in an election Sunday widely considered illegitimate after the only credible opposition was silenced and which ensures that...

A powerful typhoon slammed into central Japan early on Sunday (Jul 29), prompting local authorities to issue evacuation orders, with western areas recently devastated by...

Tibet is an inseparable part of China's "sacred" territory, and religious figures should promote national unity and ethnic harmony, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said during...

Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India's worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying...

At the Toul Kork Primary School in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh volunteers swept classrooms and laid out wooden desks on Saturday, transforming rooms into...

The resignation of Khazanah Nasional’s managing director and board members will enable the government to restructure the sovereign wealth fund, said Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir...

Some steps, including the curbs on freedom of expression and association taken by authorities in Pakistan ahead of the general elections, were at odds with...

Political analysts in Pakistan fear choppy waters lie ahead for the politics in the country with several political heavyweights who have suffered defeat in their...

The world’s first atomic clock in space is expected to give a big boost to BeiDou, China’s indigenous satellite navigation system, and make it more...

The South Korean military will gradually shorten the length of its mandatory military service, local media reported on Friday (Jul 27).Under the Defense Reform 2.0...

Hong Kong’s most prolific feng shui expert has died. Master Choi Pak-lai, who offered some valuable tips about the future in the last half a...

There was an air of desperation about panelists testifying before American trade officials this week, ahead of the imposition of tariffs on another hastily selected...

Recent scandals about substandard pharmaceutical drugs will likely jeopardize Beijing's ambitions to become a international pharma leader — even as Chinese President Xi Jinping's government...

Violence continues to maul Pakistan's voters as a suicide blast in northwestern Quetta killed at least 29 people and injured more than 30 at a...

Pakistan was gripped by electoral chaos on Thursday with the outgoing ruling party denouncing "blatant rigging" in the pivotal general election and rejecting unofficial, partial...

The death toll in coordinated Islamic State group suicide bombings and shootings in southern Syria rose to nearly 250 overnight, more than half of them...

All nine board members, including managing director Azman Mokhtar, of Malaysia's US$39 billion sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional have resigned in response to criticism from...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has been heavily criticized over the launch of a series of bank notes, whose designs have been widely discussed online.Despite...

A suicide bomber struck outside a crowded polling station in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, killing 31 people as Pakistanis cast ballots Wednesday in a...

A young Indian-origin senior economist working with the World Bank drowned after strong currents pulled her away while she was swimming in a restricted area...

The China National Petroleum Corporation, one of the largest integrated energy groups in the world, is planning to invest more than 150 billion yuan (US$22.08...

Three years ago, Peter Petracca was working as a consultant in New York, itching for a change.Petracca, originally from California, decided to move to Hanoi,...

The Pakistan election on Wednesday (Jul 25) comes after a brief but acrimonious campaign, complicated by a string of attacks which have prompted security fears.The...

Hun Many, the son of longtime Cambodian ruler Hun Sen and a potential future leader, has questioned the motive and timing of damning allegations of...

Hong Kong's population — numbering more than 7 million — has a limited amount of land to potentially inhabit, which has positioned Hong Kong to...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Sunday accused jailed prime minister Nawaz Sharif of "protecting India's interests" and trying to damage the credibility of the...

An estimated 3.1 billion Chinese took a road trip in 2017, an increase of 17.4% from a year earlier, accounting for 62% of the total...

Face++, a Chinese facial recognition company, is expected to raise at least US$600 million from investors in the near future, including Alibaba and Boyu Capital,...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) was uncharacteristically pithy, on-script and sober-minded. It defied expectations of a “fire and fury”...

A suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and wounded 60 at the entrance to Kabul international airport on Sunday (Jul 22), officials said, as...

Typhoon Ampil hit Chinese financial hub Shanghai around midday on Sunday (Jul 22), bringing heavy rainfall and disrupting transport and shipping.More than 600 flights from...

The Tongren municipal government in the southwestern province of Guizhou, has responded to the public’s questioning of building a hyperloop track with an American developer,...

When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte makes today (July 23) his third State of the Nation Address, or SONA, the often tough-talking leader will face an...

The fallout from Malaysia's suspended East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) that is currently being renegotiated with China, together with two other pipeline projects, is being...

A 15-year-old girl who was raped by her older brother has been jailed for six months for having an abortion, an Indonesian official said on...

Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers said Saturday they had accepted a ceasefire ending a massive Israeli onslaught on militant positions after a soldier was shot dead,...

Jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam has refused to shift to the Sihala Rest House, saying she would prefer staying at the high-security...

MELAKA: Melaka recorded an increase of almost 50 per cent in the number of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases, with a total of...

China’s “currency is dropping like a rock,” President Trump said this morning on a CNBC interview, while the RMB stabilized on foreign exchange markets and...

The crowd of young Pakistanis, many armed with smartphones, surround the politician's car and begin streaming live footage of something extraordinary: angry voters asking their...

While foreign diplomats often struggle to win over ordinary Iraqis, Japan’s departing ambassador has stolen hearts – thanks to witty social media videos in classical...

Two years into Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s tenure, the island’s military is still operating on a shoe-string budget, in the face of more menacing from...

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's strident rebukes of officials during recent trips to industrial sites were aimed at rallying support at home for...

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has moved to curb the country’s bulging imports basket to ease pressure on foreign-exchange reserves. They have tumbled to...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday (Jul 19) he hopes China will hand over financier Jho Low, who is wanted by...

A new strategic fault line appeared in the Afghan conflict last week when Islamabad hosted an unusual meeting of the heads of the intelligence agencies...

In an essay published in 1943 as World War II was raging on, Owen Lattimore, a renowned American scholar of East Asia, wrote: “Yunnan is...

Asian shares closed mostly lower on Tuesday — with Japan the only major market finishing in positive territory — as energy stocks declined amid weakness...

 Malaysia's Sultan Muhammad V opened the first meeting of the 14th parliament on Tuesday (Jul 17) and delivered his speech ahead of the parliamentary debates...

An intense heatwave killed at least 14 people over a three-day long weekend in Japan, media reported on Tuesday (Jul 17), and high temperatures hampered...

South Korea and Japan are the only Asian countries that regularly qualify for World Cup tournaments. While soccer is played throughout the region, long-standing sociocultural...