-- 2019-01-08 11:17:09
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced plans to punish people who hold unsanctioned protests after seven weeks of anti-government unrest. His government wants to draft new legislation t...
-- 2019-01-07 15:10:47
Chinese authorities have arrested the founder and more than a dozen others at a local traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) firm after the death of a young girl with cancer was linked to the company and...
-- 2019-01-07 14:50:02
Taliban insurgents have stormed security posts in west Afghanistan, killing 21 police and pro-government militia members, officials said on Monday, the latest in a surge of attacks that has cast doubt...
-- 2019-01-07 13:56:48
The military says it has seized power in oil-rich Gabon, where the ailing leader's family has ruled for 50 years. Soldiers in the west African country say they launched a coup "to restore democracy"....
-- 2019-01-07 11:55:39
Asian shares sped ahead on Monday as a dovish turn by the Federal Reserve and startlingly strong US jobs data soothed some of the market’s worst fears about the global outlook. Chinese stocks f...
-- 2019-01-07 11:47:41
An earthquake of 5.4 magnitude rattled Zamboanga del Norte province in the southern Philippines on Monday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. The institute said the quake, w...
-- 2019-01-07 11:24:57
A human rights group urged Thai authorities on Monday to halt plans to deport an 18-year-old Saudi woman who says she is fleeing abuse from her family and fears they will kill her if she is returned h...
-- 2019-01-07 11:10:05
Sudanese security authorities arrested several faculty members from Khartoum University on Sunday, two professors said, after they joined anti-government protests that have posed the most serious chal...
-- 2019-01-06 13:48:13
Six people were killed and 54 others injured when a tour bus overturned on a slippery road on Thai capital Bangkok's northern outskirts in the wee hours of Sunday, police said. The six dead included...
-- 2019-01-06 13:32:18
Four people, including a 13-year-old girl, were arrested Saturday during a yellow vest pro-Brexit march in central London. Around 100 people in yellow vests marched through Westminster towards Trafal...
-- 2019-01-06 11:27:42
A new regulation in Saudi Arabia is set to stop Saudi women from not knowing about their own divorce. Starting from Sunday, courts will be required to notify women by text on rulings confirming their...
-- 2019-01-06 10:52:51
US Department of Defence chief of staff Kevin Sweeney has resigned, a month after the Defence Secretary James Mattis announced his departure. Rear Admiral Sweeney said in a statement that "the time i...
-- 2019-01-05 15:16:09
At least six people including five school children were killed and seven others injured Saturday after a bus carrying them skidded off a mountainous road and fell into gorge in northern Indian state o...
-- 2019-01-05 14:18:48
Five teenage girls have died after a fire broke out while they were playing an escape game in northern Poland. A 25-year-old man was seriously injured in the blaze which started at around 17:00 local...
-- 2019-01-05 13:53:28
German unemployment rate in 2018 has fallen to a record low and the number of jobless people in December 2018 fell more than expected, the Federal Employment Agency (BA) has reported. The number of u...
-- 2019-01-05 11:43:47
World stock markets rallied on Friday while bond yields rose after sharply declining earlier in the week ahead of the US and China trade talks and US employment data pointed to economic strength. Equ...
-- 2019-01-05 11:29:24
US stocks rebounded on Friday to close at its highest level in two weeks after a strong jobs report and assurances from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Powell said that the central bank would...
-- 2019-01-05 10:47:04
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai’s co...
-- 2019-01-04 15:58:40
Malaysia's exports grew only 1.6 per cent year-on-year to 84.79 billion ringgit (about 20.78 billion US dollars) in November last year, as electrical and electronics (E&E) shipment experienced its...
-- 2019-01-04 12:59:43
Risk appetite across Southeast Asia was mixed on Friday, while Philippine shares surged as the country's inflation cooled in December, but bargain-hunters snapped up cheapened Singaporean stocks. Sen...
-- 2019-01-04 12:03:01
Asian shares steadied on Friday following a technology-led sell-off on Wall Street, while the Japanese shares tumbled and Shanghai’s benchmark surged. The Nikkei 225 index started its first tra...
-- 2019-01-04 11:33:20
US and China will hold vice ministerial level trade talks in Beijing on Jan. 7-8, as the two sides look to end a dispute that is inflicting increasing pain on both economies and roiling global financi...
-- 2019-01-03 15:38:55
Vietnam earned over 8.8 billion US dollars from exporting seafood in the previous year, mainly prawns and catfish, posting a year-on-year increase of 6.3 per cent, according to government data. The V...
-- 2019-01-03 14:50:35
Conservative Hindu groups forced India’s southern state of Kerala to a standstill on Thursday as they protested against the state government for allowing two women to defy an ancient ban and ent...
-- 2019-01-03 12:57:26
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said it has made two arrests on suspicion of arranging illegal movement of migrants across the English Channel into Britain. A 33-year-old Iranian national...
-- 2019-01-03 12:54:38
Qatar’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth accelerated to an annual 2.2 per cent in the third quarter (Q3) of 2018 from a revised 1.7 per cent in the second quarter, a govt data showed. The Mi...
-- 2019-01-03 12:08:15
Most Southeast Asian shares climbed on Thursday, with Philippine markets leading gains ahead of the release of inflation figures, while Singaporean stocks bucked the trend to fall sharply. Philippine...
-- 2019-01-03 11:33:11
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is "deeply concerned" about the increased production of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in Colombia. At a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duqu...
-- 2019-01-03 10:56:46
Asian share markets were mixed on Thursday after tumbling more than 1.0 per cent on the first trading day of 2019. Apple downgraded its sales projections, citing slowing Chinese growth, hitting tech...
-- 2019-01-03 10:38:51
A Chinese serial killer convicted of murdering 11 girls and women between 1988 and 2002 has been executed. Gao Chengyong, dubbed ‘Jack the Ripper’ by Chinese media, followed his victims h...
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