Lucknow, India - At least 96 passengers, most of whom were sleeping, were killed when an express train derailed in northern India early Sunday, police said. Rescue workers were searching for survivors believed still trapped inside the badly mangled coaches...
While Singapore held its biggest counter-terrorism exercise ever barely a month ago in response to the growing threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), what is the situation with the group's centre of struggle in the...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The three countries will hold joint military training for their army personnel starting January 2017 to fight terror group Abu Sayyaf and secure the Sulu Sea from rampant piracy. Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have agreed to...
Lucknow, India - A passenger train derailed in northern India Sunday, killing at least 63 travellers most of whom were sleeping when the fatal accident occurred, police said. Rescue workers rushed to the scene near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh state...
SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors said on Sunday they had formally indicted a friend of President Park Geun-hye and two former aides in a corruption scandal engulfing her administration. Choi Soon-sil, Park's friend, and former presidential aide An Chong-bum are...
President Park Geun-hye was an accomplice to the significant amount of crimes allegedly committed by her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil and two former aides, state prosecutors said Sunday. Lee Young-ryeol, chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, revealed this...
LIMA, Peru — Goodbye, Asia. Hello, Europe? President Rodrigo Duterte, in a bizarre turn of phrase, told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday that the Philippines had been “longing to be part of Europe.” In the first bilateral meeting between the...
LIMA - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Asia-Pacific leaders on Saturday (Nov 19) to get on board with Beijing-backed free trade agreements, after Donald Trump's election win spelled the likely demise of a US-backed deal. Trump's shock victory has cast...
At the centuries-old Chinese enclave of Binondo in the heart of Manila, China is a distant, bygone presence. Carved out of the Philippine capital by the Spaniards in 1594, the 66ha district is the oldest and largest Chinese quarter in...
The voices calling for her resignation may be growing stronger, with more than one million people expected to stand in the chill today in protest, but South Korean President Park Geun Hye is showing no sign of bowing out. Some...
