Suu Kyi ally tipped for presidency

Win Myint, the long-serving member of Myanmar's ruling party who is expected to become the country's next president within days, is
22 March 2018

18 killed in Thai bus crash

At least 18 people are killed and dozens wounded when a bus travelling in northeastern Thailand veered off the road and smashed into a tree, authorities say.
22 March 2018

19 dead as bus plunges off Philippine cliff

Nineteen people are killed and 21 others injured when a bus veered off the road and plunged down a ravine in the central Philippines, police say.
21 March 2018

Attempts to split China 'doomed'

President Xi Jinping yesterday delivered a blistering nationalist speech, warning against any attempts to split China and touting the
20 March 2018

Australia bushfires destroy homes

High temperatures and strong winds have fuelled large grass and bushfires in Australia, officials said yesterday, reducing dozens of
19 March 2018

China promotes FM, selects defence chief

China yesterday elevated the status of its current foreign minister and selected a new defence minister. National People's Congress
19 March 2018

N Korea in talks to free US detainees

North Korea is in talks with the US and Sweden to release three jailed Americans, reports said, as diplomatic activities intensified ahead
19 March 2018

Japan PM takes blame for loss of trust

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his popularity plunging amid a cronyism scandal, took responsibility yesterday for a loss of trust in
19 March 2018

Pak firing kills five family members

Five members of a single family were killed yesterday when a mortar bomb fired by Pakistani soldiers landed on their
18 March 2018

Abe's support sliding: poll

A majority of Japanese believe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bears some responsibility for altered documents at the centre
18 March 2018

Lanka tensions subside

Sri Lanka's president yesterday announced he is lifting a nationwide state of emergency imposed 12 days ago to quell
18 March 2018

India must play positive role in Rohingya crisis

India's main opposition party Congress yesterday said India should not be seen as “indifferent or partisan” and must
18 March 2018

No news from Sweden on Trump-Kim summit

North Korean officials wrapped up three days of talks with Swedish counterparts with no indication their efforts
18 March 2018

Gunmen kill two polio monitors in Pakistan

Gunmen ambushed and shot dead two members of a polio monitoring team in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the
18 March 2018

Four killed, 19 trapped in Philippine hotel fire

Four people were killed and 19 feared trapped by a major hotel fire in the Philippine capital Manila yesterday, with
18 March 2018

'Go back to paper ballots'

Electronic voting machines, first introduced in state elections two decades ago, should be dumped and India should
17 March 2018

Mass arrests as activists defy emergency

Maldivian authorities arrested more than 140 activists who defied a ban on rallies and demonstrated against a state
17 March 2018

Xi gets second term

China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term yesterday and elevated his
17 March 2018

US-Bangla plane crash: List of bodies identified

A total of 25 victims, including 14 Bangladeshis, who died in the US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crash in Kathmandu of Nepal are identified.
17 March 2018

Experts from Bangladesh, Nepal, Canada to decide where black box will be decoded

A joint-team of experts will decide the place where the black box of the crashed US-Bangla aircraft will be decoded, the chief of Nepalese investigation team says.
17 March 2018