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Malaysia's Home Minister Muhyiddin to be discharged from Singapore hospital

Malaysian Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been given the green light to be discharged from...

Nawaz Sharif’s wife Kulsoom Nawaz regains consciousness, still on ventilator

Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of jailed former-Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has regained consciousness but is...

Laos dam collapse death toll rises to 31, 130 still missing: reports

The death toll from a massive dam collapse in southern Laos has jumped to 31,...

Bangladesh police fire tear gas to clear protesters blocking traffic

Bangladeshi police fired tear gas on Sunday to disperse tens of thousands of students protesting...

China tests its hypersonic wave-rider aircraft

Chinese engineers say they have tested an aircraft based on sonic wave-riding technology and able...

Powerful quake rocks Indonesia’s Lombok island, 82 dead

A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least...

China Snubs Trump on Iran as Biggest Refiner Halts U.S. Oil Buys

China’s largest refiner, Sinopec, will delay making any purchases of U.S. oil for September amid...

How a phone app, database of over 50 mn voters helped Imran Khan win Pak polls

A phone app and a database of more than 50 million voters were key weapons...

Myanmar overhauls forestry body amid surge in illegal logging

As Myanmar has announced plans to restructure the government-run entity Myanmar Timber Enterprise, or MTE,...

China’s new woes unravel Xi’s personality cult

China’s – or, perhaps, more correctly, Xi Jinping’s – propagandists hail him as an exceptional...

Sri Lanka part of China's One Belt One Road initiative: Communist Party

Sri Lanka is very much a partner in China's ambitious One Belt One Road initiative,...

Imran Khan summoned by Pak’s anti-graft body for misuse of govt helicopters

Imran Khan, who is set to become Pakistan's new prime minister, has been summoned by...

Pak court to hear high treason trial against Musharraf on Aug 20: report

A special court in Pakistan hearing the treason charges against former dictator Pervez Musharraf has...

Imran hopes to improve on ties with India, invite Modi

Pakistan’s Prime Minister-elect Imran Khan is hoping to resolve issues with India during his five-year...

Imran Khan wants simple swearing-in, no foreign leaders to attend

Imran Khan has decided against inviting foreign leaders and celebrities to his oath-taking ceremony as...

Why developers represent one of China’s largest ‘gray rhinos’

duplicate While talk of a trade war and the vulnerability of Chinese financial markets has...