Pakistan - At least 44 people were killed and more than a hundred wounded in an overnight raid by militants on a police academy in southwest Pakistan, officials said Tuesday, after declaring a military counter-operation was finished. The attack on...
New Delhi - An historic mosque in India agreed Monday to scrap a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, after a bitter legal battle about the restriction in the deeply religious country. The Haji Ali Dargah trust has since...
Hoàng Thị Vân was captured in broad daylight. The 34-year-old woman, accompanied by her aunt, was walking home after a day harvesting beans in the field. Three young men jumped out of nowhere, hit the two with the back of their...
HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court Monday heard how British banker Rurik Jutting tortured one of his victims for three days as the trial opened into the killings of two Indonesian women at his upscale apartment. Jutting, 31, had...
SHANGHAI - China's yuan touched a six-year low against the dollar before partially recovering on Monday, as large state-owned banks sold dollars in an apparent effort to slow a rapid decline in the currency, traders said. Three traders said big...
TUGUEGARAO CITY - President Duterte on Sunday promised that every Filipino would get an equal share from investment pledges made by China, where he made a state visit during the week Supertyphoon "Lawin" devastated Cagayan Valley, the Ilocos and...
A Chinese-Indonesian community association has praised the government's moves to abolish several discriminatory regulations against citizens of Chinese descent in the country. The Chinese-Indonesian Social Association (PSMTI)'s national meeting chairman Gunadi Sindhuwinata said under the previous discriminatory regulations, Chinese-Indonesians had...
By the time his killers were done with him, the body of Ranilo Maydan Jr. looked like it had been used for target practice. According to the police, he was shot 34 times. "The rapid burst of gunfire came in...
SEOUL - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it is offering an upgrade programme to Galaxy Note 7 customers in South Korea who trade in their recalled device for a Galaxy S7 phone. In a statement, Samsung said customers...
Beijing - A key conclave of China's Communist Party elite kicked off Monday in Beijing, the official Xinhua news service reported, as leader Xi Jinping seeks to tighten his control over the organisation. Nearly 400 top members of the world's...
