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
India-Pakistan talks cancelled amid recriminations
Planned high-level talks between India and Pakistan have been cancelled hours before they were due to start on Sunday, amid mutual recriminations.
23 August 2015
Koreas on 'war footing'
North and South Korea appeared headed towards another clash yesterday as Seoul refused to halt propaganda broadcasts and
21 August 2015
Afghanistan's strongman vice-president fights off Taliban ambush
Taliban ambush on Afghan Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum's convoy on a remote highway is successfully beaten back.
21 August 2015
Tianjin explosions: New fires burn at site
Four new fires are burning at the site in the Chinese city of Tianjin where blasts killed at least 116 people, the state-run Xinhua news agency says.
21 August 2015
Flash flood hits Sylhet
Heavy rain coupled with onrush water from the hills triggered flash floods in Guainghat, Jaintapur upazilas under Sylhet district,
19 August 2015
Pariza paddy brings smile to farmers in Lalmonirhat
Cultivation of Pariza, a short duration paddy cultivated between boro and aman, brings happiness to a good number of farmers in the
18 August 2015
India landslide kills seven in Sikh shrine, many trapped
A landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has killed at least seven people and injured eight others after boulders dislodged and fell onto a Sikh shrine.
18 August 2015
Ex-Sri Lanka leader Rajapakse concedes election defeat
Sri Lanka's former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse admits his dream of a political comeback was over after conceding defeat in parliamentary elections.
18 August 2015
Bangkok bomb was worst ever attack, says Thai PM
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has said the bombing of a shrine in the capital, Bangkok, on Monday was the "worst ever attack" on the country.
18 August 2015
Thakurgaon Jamaat chief arrested
Law enforcers arrested Abdul Hakim, chief of Thakurgaon district unit of Jamaat-e-Islami, from his residence in Hajirpara area in the
17 August 2015
Death toll hits 104
The death toll from the giant chemical explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin has reached 104, the Xinhua said yesterday, as area residents were evacuated over fears of cyanide contamination.
15 August 2015
'Remorseful' for aggression
Japanese Emperor Akihito yesterday, for the first time, expressed "deep remorse" over Japan's role in World War Two.
15 August 2015
No fresh apology from Japan PM
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed deep remorse yesterday over World War II and said previous national apologies were
14 August 2015
Singapore flats get giant art on their facades
Painting on canvas is all in a day's work for an artist, but creating and assembling dozens of panels into a massive work of art of up to 900 sq m is no mean feat.
14 August 2015
Where kamikaze pilots sent last signals
As World War II progressed, Japans military power started to wane. With only a few lead ships left, the navy had no choice but to transfer the command centre to land.
13 August 2015
Suicide attack at Kabul airport kills 5
A Taliban suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the international airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing five people.
10 August 2015
Typhoon Soudelor kills 12 in China
Typhoon Soudelor killed 12 people in eastern China and five are missing after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century, state media reported yesterday.
9 August 2015
Abe pledges nuke free Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by renewing his
9 August 2015
North Korea's new time zone to break from 'imperialism'
North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, say state media.
7 August 2015
Suicide attack in Saudi mosque kills 13
A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Saudi Arabia kills 13 people.
6 August 2015