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-- 2020-01-16 16:31:08
Hong Kong's full-year provisional visitor arrivals in 2019 amounted to 55.9 million and recorded a year-on-year decrease of 14.2 per cent, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced Wednesday. Visi...
-- 2020-01-16 11:05:58
Thunderstorms and heavy rain swept across parts of Australia’s east coast on Thursday, bringing hope that some of the fierce bushfires razing the country will be extinguished - or at least slowe...
Reuters 2020-01-15 17:02:16
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed on Wednesday a proposal for a new “Trump deal” aimed at resolving a nuclear row, saying it was a “strange” offer and criticising US P...
BBC 2020-01-15 16:55:34
A woman who became China's first female tractor driver, and eventually a national icon, has died at the age of 90. In 1948, Liang Jun became the only female in China to take up the job, when she enro...
-- 2020-01-15 10:47:40
Iran says it has arrested the person who filmed the footage showing a Ukrainian passenger plane being shot down by a missile. It is believed the person being detained will face charges related to nat...
Reuters 2020-01-15 10:38:41
The International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest court, will issue a decision on a request for emergency measures in a genocide case against Myanmar on January 23, the Gambian Min...
Xinhua 2020-01-14 18:53:45
A total of 1,123 new cadets graduated from a commando school and joined the Afghan national army, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. "Up to 1,123 commando forces completed their training...
Global Times 2020-01-14 18:37:25
Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen won by a landslide in the island's regional leadership elections, and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) took more than half of the "legislative" seats. We shou...
-- 2020-01-14 15:13:34
At least 57 people were killed and others were missing after avalanches in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior government officials said on Tuesday. In neighbouring India, at l...
-- 2020-01-14 11:30:34
Calling India's controversial new citizenship law 'sad', Microsoft boss Satya Nadella said he would love to see a Bangladeshi immigrant succeed in the country's technology industry. The India-born...
-- 2020-01-13 19:09:21
A Pakistani High Court on Monday ruled that the formation of a special court that last month handed former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf a death sentence was unconstitutional, casting into...
Global Times 2020-01-13 18:44:31
The latest decision to reject the entry of a US-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) executive director won't be the last to show China has been taking countermeasures against external forces, whi...
Reuters 2020-01-13 12:17:26
A volcano near Manila spewed a massive cloud of ash that drifted across the Philippine capital on Sunday, forcing the cancellation of flights and closure of schools and government offices as authoriti...
REUTERS 2020-01-13 10:32:41
Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despi...
Reuters 2020-01-12 14:09:44
A group of Iranian protesters demanded Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei step down on Saturday after Tehran said that its military had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing...
Reuters 2020-01-12 11:42:02
Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed on Saturday that the country’s ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities, denouncing the arrest as a “flagrant violation of...
-- 2020-01-12 11:17:56
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has expressed regret over his handling of the bushfire crisis ravaging the country. The PM has faced mounting criticism over his government's response to the...
REUTERS 2020-01-12 10:40:06
Iran’s clerical rulers risk a legitimacy crisis as popular anger has boiled up at the way the state handled a passenger plane crash, which the military took three days to admit was caused by an...
-- 2020-01-11 22:14:38
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen has secured a second term after sweeping to victory in the island's hard-fought election. With almost all votes counted, Ms Tsai had about 58 per cent of the vote, wel...
-- 2020-01-11 14:57:39
A North Korean official on Saturday said that the US and South Korea are dreaming if they think that President Donald Trump’s sending a birthday message would get leader Kim Jong Un back to the...
-- 2020-01-11 12:00:04
At least thirteen people were killed, including a senior police officer, and 20 others injured in a blast at a mosque in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Friday. Police said an improvised explosive...
REUTERS 2020-01-11 11:43:15
Iran “deeply regrets” the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner earlier this week, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said in a tweet on Saturday. Armed Forces’ internal...
-- 2020-01-11 11:14:24
Oman’s ailing Sultan Qaboos bin Said, one of the Middle East’s longest serving rulers who maintained the country’s neutrality in regional struggles, died on Friday and the Gulf state...
AP 2020-01-11 10:39:28
Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly den...
-- 2020-01-10 18:03:39
Iran has again rejected suggestions that one of its missiles brought down a Ukrainian passenger jet near the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday. Its civil aviation chief said on Friday he was "certain" th...
-- 2020-01-10 13:09:22
India’s Supreme Court said on Friday that shutting down the internet in the disputed region of Kashmir was unconstitutional in a rebuke for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The...
-- 2020-01-10 12:03:02
A Chinese province has said just 17 people, out of its population of more than 80 million, are living in poverty. Jiangsu province said only a handful of people lived below its benchmark of 6,000 yua...
-- 2020-01-10 00:28:23
Thousands of camels in South Australia will be shot dead from helicopters as a result of extreme heat and drought, reports BBC. A five-day cull started on Wednesday, as Aboriginal communities in the...
Xinhua 2020-01-09 17:56:07
Crippled with drought and ravaged by fire, it's no surprise that 2019 will go down as Australia's warmest and driest year on record. The official figures in the Annual Climate Statement released by t...
Xinhua 2020-01-09 16:55:08
The Philippines on Wednesday expressed "deep concern over the events in Iraq" and the impacts they will have on peace and the stability of the Middle East region. "The Department of Foreign Affairs (...
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