ICJ genocide case 'flawed and unfounded': Myanmar govt
14 January 2026
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Asia
Myanmar made lives of the Rohingyas a nightmare
13 January 2026
Bomb attacks on Thailand petrol stations injure 4
12 January 2026
Japan PM mulling snap election in coming weeks: reports
11 January 2026
Bangabandhu’s autobiography translated to Korean
2 July 2021
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Asia
Japan minister says necessary to 'wake up' to protect Taiwan
29 June 2021
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Japan
Myanmar violence escalates with rise of ‘self-defence’ groups: report
28 June 2021
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Asia
Hong Kong police arrest former Apple Daily journalist at airport: media
28 June 2021
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China
China turns on world’s second-biggest hydropower dam
28 June 2021
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China
Young activists take on China
Young Hong Kong independence activists calling for a complete break from China stood for the first time yesterday in city-wide legislative elections, the biggest polls since mass pro-democracy protests in 2014.
4 September 2016
Ice cream diplomacy
Despite warm relations between Moscow and Beijing, Vladimir Putin brought a chilly gift for his Chinese counterpart Xi
4 September 2016
Avoid empty talks at G20: Xi
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged world leaders to avoid "empty talk" and confront sluggish economic growth and
4 September 2016
India gives Vietnam $500m in defence aid
India yesterday said it is giving Vietnam half a billion dollars in credit to boost defence ties, the latest security deal
3 September 2016
Myanmar peace summit ends
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi concluded a landmark summit with ethnic rebels yesterday, calling it the first step on
3 September 2016
'Clouded legacy' of 'Saint Teresa'
As the Vatican prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint today, in the Indian city where she rose to fame, claims of
3 September 2016
Abe calls for 'new era' in Russian ties
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday bappealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a new era in ties
3 September 2016
Singapore Zika is Asian
Singapore yesterday reported 215 cases of Zika infections as scientists in the city-state said the virus strain comes
3 September 2016
Blast at market kills 12 in Philippines
An explosion at a packed night market in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte killed at least 12 people on Friday and
2 September 2016
Japan typhoon kills 9
Surging flood water and mud brought by a devastating typhoon killed nine people in an elderly care home in northern Japan,
31 August 2016
Xi reshuffles key party posts ahead of congress
Chinese President Xi Jinping has reshuffled three top provincial-level Communist Party posts as he seeks to place his men in key
29 August 2016
North Korea rejects UNSC condemnation
North Korea yesterday hit back at a UN Security Council statement condemning its latest test-firing of a submarine-
28 August 2016
S'pore reports 41 locally transmitted Zika cases
Singapore yesterday confirmed 41 locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus, which can cause deformities in unborn
28 August 2016
WB hospital fire kills 3
Three people have been killed and 50 children injured in a fire broke out at the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal
27 August 2016
Extradite Dawood, India tells Pak
After the UN confirmation of Dawood Ibrahim's addresses in Pakistan, India said on Friday that it was incumbent upon Islamabad
27 August 2016
Japan PM pledges $30b for Africa
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday told African leaders that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private
27 August 2016
Kashmir curfew enters day-50
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested a top separatist leader, his aide said yesterday, as the region's chief minister met
27 August 2016
Bus plunges into Nepal river; 21 killed
A packed passenger bus plunged into a river early yesterday in central Nepal, killing 21 people, a senior local official
26 August 2016
US aid to Pak shrinks
Pakistan's continued support for resurgent militant groups hostile to the United States, coupled with warming US
26 August 2016
Nasheed meets exiled opposition groups
The Maldives' dissident former president met opposition groups in neighbouring Sri Lanka yesterday to hatch a plan
26 August 2016