World

Manila: A scheduled meeting between the foreign ministers of China and Vietnam was cancelled on the sidelines of a regional gathering, Chinese embassy...

Beijing: China will pay the biggest price from the new United Nations sanctions against North Korea because of its close economic relationship with the...

Tokyo: Japan warned on Tuesday against the acute threat posed by North Korea's weapons programmes as Pyongyang's continued series of missile and...

Myaetinekan Village (Myanmar): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has turned to state-run media inherited from the former junta in an overhaul of her PR...

Beijing: China on Tuesday celebrated 70 years since the founding of Inner Mongolia, its first self-proclaimed region run by ethnic minorities, as a leading...

Hong Kong: Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major...

Sydney: Police in Australia, Dubai and the Netherlands have arrested 17 people and seized nearly two tonnes of narcotics in raids the Australian Federal...

Washington: The large non-resident Indian community in the US has welcomed the recent decision of the Union Cabinet to extend proxy voting to overseas...

Lahore: A bomb blast on Monday wounded at least 22 people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, a government official said, with no one immediately...

Cape Town: The speaker of South Africa's parliament ruled on Monday that a motion of no-confidence in President Jacob Zuma brought by opposition parties...