ICJ genocide case 'flawed and unfounded': Myanmar govt
14 January 2026, 10:41 AM
Asia
Myanmar made lives of the Rohingyas a nightmare
13 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Myanmar pro-military party claims Suu Kyi's seat in junta-run poll
12 January 2026, 13:58 PM
Bomb attacks on Thailand petrol stations injure 4
12 January 2026, 02:46 AM
Japan PM mulling snap election in coming weeks: reports
11 January 2026, 02:08 AM
Bangabandhu’s autobiography translated to Korean
2 July 2021, 08:18 AM
Asia
Japan minister says necessary to 'wake up' to protect Taiwan
29 June 2021, 02:49 AM
Japan
Myanmar violence escalates with rise of ‘self-defence’ groups: report
28 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Asia
Hong Kong police arrest former Apple Daily journalist at airport: media
28 June 2021, 11:36 AM
China
China turns on world’s second-biggest hydropower dam
28 June 2021, 08:40 AM
China
3D printer helps separate conjoined twins in China
Chinese surgeons uses 3D printing technology as part of a successful operation to separate conjoined twins.
10 June 2015, 13:40 PM
China riverboat tragedy toll hits 431; 11 missing
Rescuers bowed their heads and ships' hooters blared in tribute to the victims of Communist China's worst shipping disaster yesterday, as relatives of the 431 dead and 11 still
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Saudi court upholds blogger's 10 years and 1,000 lashes
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upholds the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years of imprisonment on blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry.
7 June 2015, 15:39 PM
The fake pictures of the Rohingya crisis
The plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar has been in the spotlight last month after thousands of migrants have been left stranded at sea but not all the images being shared online are what they seem to be.
7 June 2015, 13:22 PM
Malala suspects 'secretly acquitted'
Eight of the 10 men supposedly convicted and jailed for attempting to murder Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai were actually
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Chinese cruise ship lifted from river
The Eastern Star is upright once again, looking almost normal with its bottom resting on the water and its deck and cabins clear above it.
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Lawyers to seek Manas trial by military court
A team of lawyers representing key human-trafficking suspect Thai army officer Lt-General Manas Khongpaen is planning to make a legal
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Thai PM vows no escape for officials in probe
Thailand's junta leader yesterday said government officials involved in the illicit trade in migrants would not be spared and vowed to
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Suu Kyi to make first China trip next week
Myanmar's opposition leader and democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi will visit China for the first time next week, Beijing and her party
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Vietnam eyes Western jets to counter China
Vietnam is in talks with European and US contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Quake strands 137 climbers on Malaysian peak
Malaysian authorities raced yesterday to try to reach 137 people, some of them injured, who were stranded atop the popular climbing
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Lanka PM faces no-confidence motion
Sri Lanka's opposition said yesterday it has filed a motion of no confidence in the country's new prime minister, a move likely to hasten
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Eight out of 10 Malala suspects 'secretly acquitted'
Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai have been acquitted.
5 June 2015, 12:44 PM
Hope fades for 400 missing
Rescuers yesterday started cutting through the hull of a capsized Chinese cruise ship, state media said, in a desperate effort to find
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Godzilla finally gets citizenship in Japan
Most residents of Tokyo's pulsing Shinjuku ward, home to the busiest railway station in the world, are of the Homo sapiens variety.
3 June 2015, 14:39 PM
Hollywood actor Matt Dillon visits Rohingya camp (video)
American actor Matt Dillon put a rare star-powered spotlight on Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, visiting a camp for tens of thousands displaced by violence.
2 June 2015, 10:00 AM
Migrant boat still being held off Myanmar coast
More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Myanmar's navy
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Abe apologises for heckling lawmaker
Japan's parliamentary session opened yesterday with an unusual apology from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over his heckling.
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM
US, China spat intensifies
The United States yesterday called for an immediate end to China's intensifying reclamation works in the South China Sea and vowed to
30 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Death toll crosses 2,000
India's brutal weeks-long heatwave has killed more than 2,000 people, authorities said yesterday, as day temperatures decreased at
30 May 2015, 18:00 PM