Google launches new search experience for job seekers in Bangladesh

Google unveils a new search experience making it easier for job seekers in three countries of South Asia, including Bangladesh, to find employment opportunities from popular job listing websites, online classifieds and companies.
5 September 2018, 10:53 AM

Japan typhoon leaves trail of destruction, death toll hits 10

A powerful typhoon kills 10 people in western Japan and an airport company starts to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a flooded airport, the government says, as more than a million homes were without power.
5 September 2018, 04:33 AM

Malaysian Crackdown: '7,000 Bangladeshis' held since January

Malaysian immigration department has detained more than 30,000 undocumented migrants, including an estimated 7,000 Bangladeshis, since January this year.
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM

'Our rubber' performs a great duty for humanity

Without Malaysian rubber, the world's population growth would spiral out of control, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in a light vein when launching the 9th International Rubber Glove Conference and Exhibition 2018.
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Pak PM’s ally elected as president

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Dr Arifur Rehman Alvi is elected as the 13th President of Pakistan, according to provisional results.
4 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Families of jailed Myanmar reporters appeal for release

The wife of one of two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar makes an emotional appeal to Aung San Suu Kyi to free her husband for the sake of their young daughter, as the leader comes under increasing criticism for her silence on the case.
4 September 2018, 14:07 PM

Arif Alvi: The ‘founder’ of PTI also rises

The party cadre adores him for being among the individuals who founded the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) with the country’s popular cricketer as its head and who has never stopped dreaming that one day his leader would become prime minister.
4 September 2018, 13:32 PM

Alvi, Rehman, or Aitzaz; who will be the next president of Pakistan?

Polling is taking place at the National Assembly and four provincial legislatures to elect the 13th president of Pakistan.
4 September 2018, 10:39 AM

Release Reuters journos: Myanmar rights bodies

Eighty-three civil society organisations in Myanmar demand immediate and unconditional release two Reuters journalists jailed on “politically motivated charges”.
4 September 2018, 08:43 AM

Asia's rising appetite for meat, seafood will 'strain environment'

Asia's growing appetite for meat and seafood over the next three decades will cause huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics used in foods, researchers say.
4 September 2018, 05:04 AM

Xi offers another $60b for African development

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday offered another $60 billion in financing for Africa and wrote off some debt for poorer African
3 September 2018, 18:00 PM

No human tissue in 'body' bags

The packets found from a south Kolkata locality contained medical waste and not 'decomposed remains of 14 babies and foetuses' as
3 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Reactions to verdict on Reuters' journos

A Myanmar judge yesterday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years, in
3 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Suu Kyi's image in shreds

The jailing of two Reuters journalists shreds what remains of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's reputation as a rights champion,
3 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Luxury cars of Pak PM House to be auctioned

The Prime Minister House on Friday released a list of luxury and surplus vehicles to be auctioned by the government. The auction will
1 September 2018, 18:00 PM

All int'l agreements to be reviewed: Pak PM

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said his government would review all international agreements it inherited from the last
1 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Imran Khan wants media to give him 3 months before criticising his govt

Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked that the media give his government three months before criticising its performance, DawnNewsTV reports.
1 September 2018, 09:24 AM

Ghost ship in Myanmar waters was heading to Bangladeshi ship-breaking yard

A stranded vessel empty of crew and goods that was found in Myanmar's waters this week was being towed by a ship with 13 Indonesian nationals for a ship-breaking factory in Bangladesh before it became unmoored, the Myanmar Navy says.
1 September 2018, 08:31 AM

After austerity drive, Imran Khan takes helicopter to work

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, days after launching an austerity drive, is being criticised for using a helicopter to commute to work daily, from his residence in Bani Gala to the prime minister's Secretariat.
1 September 2018, 06:22 AM

North Korea preparing toned-down military parade – Analysts

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is poised to stage another military parade amid new worries that diplomatic efforts on denuclearisation are stalling, though analysts say it is unclear whether it will showcase any of the country's largest ballistic missiles.
1 September 2018, 04:56 AM