Kokrajhar, India - The death toll from an attack in India's north-eastern Assam state, where gunmen opened fire on a busy market, jumped to 15 on Saturday (Aug 6) as three more people succumbed to their injuries.The dead included...
Hitting Singapore from Batam would have required a military- grade rocket and complex calculations, said a military observer.Though it is not known what kind of rockets the suspects planned to use, weapons and equipment editor Kelvin Wong of military...
Tokyo - Japan on Saturday (Aug 6) marked 71 years since the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by a US atomic bomb, as its mayor urged the world to unite in abolishing nuclear weapons.The annual ceremony came just months...
Suspected Indonesian militant Gigih Rahmat Dewa is the ringleader of a little-known local terror cell called Katibah GR, or "Cell GR".Indonesian police arrested him - along with his wife and baby - as well as five other cell members...
Indonesian militant Muhammad Bahrun Naim, whose name came up after yesterday's arrests in Batam, has been in the news since 2010, when he was arrested for illegal possession of ammunition.He is now said to be fighting alongside the Islamic...
NEW DELHI - Fourteen police officers have been suspended in India after a low-caste man was allegedly tortured and killed in custody, police said Friday.Kamal Valmiki, from India's lowest Dalit caste, was found hanging inside a cell on Wednesday...
JAKARTA - A noodle snack with a picture of a bikini-clad woman and the words "squeeze me" on the packaging has triggered outrage in Muslim-majority Indonesia, with consumer groups calling Friday for it to be pulled from shops.The snack...
PHNOM PENH - Cambodian customs Friday seized more than 600 kilograms of illegal ivory in a container packed with corn that had languished unclaimed at a port for two years after being shipped from Africa.The haul was made after...
BEIJING - A Chinese human rights activist was on Friday given a three year suspended prison sentence for subversion, a court said, in the fourth such case this week as authorities crack down on dissent.Christian activist Gou Hongguo had...
MANILA - A Bangladesh central bank team visiting Manila to recover US$81 million (S$108.59 million) stolen from its account in New York said it was close to getting back US$15 million of the loot frozen by the Philippines, but...
