Strong quake hits northern Japan

Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors yesterday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing.
6 September 2018

Thai cave boys attend dinner to thank cave divers, rescuers

Some 10,000 people swarm a well-known square in the Thai capital as the young Thai football team who were dramatically rescued from a flooded cave in July attended a formal thank-you dinner presided by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
6 September 2018

Japan's Kansai airport to reopen partially after typhoon damage

Japan's Kansai airport will reopen partially, the government says, after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland.
6 September 2018

Japan acknowledges first radiation death among Fukushima workers

Japan acknowledges for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.
5 September 2018

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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