Modi, Xi push business links, border peace as ties revive
12 September 2026
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Asia
Philippine ferry fire death toll jumps to 76: coast guard
12 September 2026
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Asia
Kim Jong Un wants North Koreans to have more (state-sanctioned) fun
11 September 2026
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World
Philippine ferry fire kills five, 87 missing: coast guard
10 September 2026
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Asia
Landslides in eastern China kill 13
9 September 2026
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Asia
N Korea calls Russia bridge a sign of tighter ties
9 September 2026
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Asia
Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight
5 September 2026
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Asia
Nepal flood losses estimated at $2.56 billion
4 September 2026
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Natural Disaster
Two trapped tunnel workers rescued 9 days after floods hit Nepal
4 September 2026
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Natural Disaster
Last-minute flood warning saved over 900 Nepal students, school head says
1 September 2026
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Asia
4 Bangladeshis jailed in Singapore for financing terrorism
Singapore court sentences four Bangladeshi workers to two to five years’ imprisonment for financing terrorism. They were detained in April under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
12 July 2016
Abe claims win in Japan parliamentary poll
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims victory in weekend elections, giving a boost to his long-cherished desire to water down the country's pacifist constitution.
11 July 2016
Kashmir fear after mob drowns policeman
There are fears of more violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, after a policeman drowns when an angry crowd pushed his car in a river.
11 July 2016
NKorea threatens action over US anti-missile system
North Korea threatens to take "physical action" after Washington and Seoul announced they would deploy a sophisticated US anti-missile defence system to counter the growing menace from Pyongyang.
11 July 2016
Eyeing polls, Modi backtracks on 'minimum government'
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inducted 19 new ministers into his cabinet to bolster his two-year-old
10 July 2016
MJ Akbar debuts as federal minister
Veteran journalist MJ Akbar made his debut as a federal Indian minister last Tuesday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook an expansion of his council of ministers for the second time in just over two years.
10 July 2016
Six more killed
Five protesters and a police officer were killed in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state yesterday, police said, raising the death toll in violence sparked by the death of a separatist militant to 21 since Friday.
10 July 2016
Floods in India kill 15
Flash floods from torrential downpours in the in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have killed 15 people, with
10 July 2016
Japan ruling coalition wins super majority
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory yesterday in an election for parliament's upper house, despite concerns about his economic policies and plans to revise the nation's post-war pacifist constitution for the first time.
10 July 2016
Eight killed in Kashmir after Rebel's death
Eight protesters were killed and more than 200 others injured in disputed Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday after
9 July 2016
Philanthropist Edhi dies aged 88
Renowned Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who dedicated his life to the poor, has died at the age of 88. Edhi's family said he
9 July 2016
Saudis arrest 12 Pakistanis over bombs
Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani.
8 July 2016
Baghdad bombing death toll rises to 281
Iraqi officials have again raised the figure for the number of people killed in Sunday's suicide bombing in Baghdad.
7 July 2016
Flash floods kill 43 in northern Pakistan
Overnight flash floods killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the majority in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before the waters hit washing away most of the settlement, officials said yesterday.
3 July 2016
Myanmar mob burns down mosque
A mob burns down a mosque in northern Myanmar in the second attack of its kind in just over a week.
3 July 2016
India designed jet joins air force
The first Indian-designed fighter jet, the Tejas, has been inducted into the country's air force, 31 years after it was first
1 July 2016
One killed by Taiwan accidental missile
A Taiwanese warship mistakenly launched a supersonic "aircraft carrier killer" missile towards China yesterday, hitting
1 July 2016
Myanmar frees famed activist monk
A former monk and influential leader of Myanmar's 2007 anti-junta uprising has been freed from jail and charges
1 July 2016
Duterte urges rebels to kill criminals
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday urged communist rebels to start killing drug traffickers, adding another
1 July 2016
Indian soldiers kill 2 rebels in Kashmir
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police yesterday in Indian-administered Kashmir after two suspected insurgents
30 June 2016