-- 2018-05-09 22:52:07
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad claimed that the opposition alliance he leads had won enough parliament seats in Wednesday’s general election to form the next government. Official results fro...
-- 2018-05-09 17:19:43
India is likely to urge Nepal to soon hold the fourth summit of the seven-member grouping of BIMSTEC. The summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation...
-- 2018-05-09 15:19:26
Saudi Arabia’s air defence forces intercepted a missile above the capital Riyadh, Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya said on Wednesday. The broadcaster made the announcement after four consecut...
-- 2018-05-09 12:44:56
The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea met in Tokyo on Wednesday in a powerful gesture of solidarity against the backdrop of historic diplomatic moves by North Korea and a push for the isolated c...
-- 2018-05-09 11:06:44
An explosion at a small coal mine in China’s Hunan province killed two workers on Wednesday while another three remained missing, the Hunan coal mine safety regulation bureau said. The incident...
-- 2018-05-09 10:53:31
Millions of voters in Malaysia are heading to the polls in an election that will see the country’s leader take on his 92-year-old former mentor. Opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad will face off...
Reuters 2018-05-09 10:33:19
Syrian state media accused Israel of launching missiles at a target near Damascus on Tuesday, shortly after US President Donald Trump announced he was quitting the Iranian nuclear deal, a move that ha...
-- 2018-05-08 19:21:01
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian on Monday and Tuesday. Chinese state media reported that it is the second meeting betw...
-- 2018-05-08 16:02:00
Elections will be held in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq on September 30, Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw said on Tuesday, citing regional prime minister Nechirvan Barzani. Rudaw is...
-- 2018-05-08 10:41:23
A former Chinese Communist Party official once tipped for a top leadership position has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery. Sun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member, is the latest senior fig...
-- 2018-05-07 22:52:25
Hezbollah's leader says the Iran-backed militant Shia group and its allies have achieved "victory" in Lebanon's first parliamentary elections since 2009. Although the official results have not been a...
-- 2018-05-07 22:12:55
Lebanon's Sunni Muslim prime minister has said his political party lost a third of its seats in parliament on Monday in the country's first elections since 2009. Saad Hariri said the official results...
-- 2018-05-07 13:39:59
The Anti-terror squad of the Indonesian national police thwarted a suicide attack plot and nabbed three alleged terrorists involved with the plan. Police disclosed on Monday that the three had planne...
-- 2018-05-07 13:23:30
Few outside Iraq knew the name Haider al-Abadi in 2014 when he was plucked from relative obscurity to lead a nation in chaos. A compromise candidate floated after his predecessor Nuri al-Maliki was s...
-- 2018-05-07 11:34:44
An explosion at a mosque used as a voter centre in the eastern Afghan province of Khost has killed at least 17 people and wounded 34, local officials said, in the latest attack on preparations for lon...
-- 2018-05-06 21:18:56
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Sunday, officials said, an incident likely to heighten political tensions ahead of general elections...
-- 2018-05-06 20:52:56
Two coal mines collapsed in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, killing at least 23 people and injuring six others while five miners remained trapped, officials said. Pakistani...
-- 2018-05-06 18:10:21
Days after a historic inter-Korean summit Lee Min-bok, a defector who has been flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North for 15 years, received a call from an official at Seoul's Unification Minis...
FE Online Desk 2018-05-06 13:48:25
A two-day long ADBI Sessions on Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, and Infrastructure Development on Asia and the Pacific Economies begin on May 11 at Suzhou, PRC. The sessions will disseminate...
-- 2018-05-06 13:47:33
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said Iran has plans to respond to any move by US President Donald Trump on the 2015 nuclear agreement and the United States would regret a decision to exit the acc...
-- 2018-05-06 12:19:33
A health official says 10 Cambodian villagers have died and 120 others are sickened after drinking water suspected to be contaminated with insecticide. The head of the Kratie Provincial Health Depart...
-- 2018-05-06 10:36:52
Polling booths opened in Lebanon on Sunday for the country’s first parliamentary election in nine years, a period marked by stretches of political paralysis and war in neighbouring Syria. Votin...
-- 2018-05-06 10:29:14
At least 16 miners have been killed and more than a dozen others remained trapped after an explosion in a coalmine in southwest Pakistan, officials said. Saturday's blast in the Marwar coalfields in...
-- 2018-05-05 17:26:03
United Arab Emirates (UAE) forces have occupied sea and airports on Yemen's remote island of Socotra, a day after deploying four military craft and more than 100 troops there. UAE soldiers also block...
Al Jazeera 2018-05-05 12:32:12
The US deployed a team of Special Forces soldiers to Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen to help locate and destroy caches of ballistic missiles used by Houthi rebels to attack the Saudi capital, R...
-- 2018-05-05 12:24:49
At least three members of pro-government local militia were killed and two others injured after Taliban laid an ambush attack in northern Afghan province of Badakhshan Friday night, police said. "The...
BBC 2018-05-05 10:19:39
North Korea has changed time zone to match the South after last week's inter-Korean summit, according to state media. At 23:30 local time (15:00 GMT) on Friday the country's clocks moved forward 30 m...
-- 2018-05-04 22:24:35
Journalists in Myanmar believe their government is failing to defend media freedom despite the transition from harsh military rule to an elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a survey p...
-- 2018-05-04 17:11:09
The United States had raised concerns with China about its latest militarisation of the South China Sea (SCS) and there would be near-term and long-term consequences, the White House said on Thursday....
-- 2018-05-04 16:49:30
The decision of China's ruling Communist Party to stick with the political theories of Karl Marx remains ‘totally correct’, President Xi Jinping said ahead of the 200th anniversary of the...
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