CANBERRA, Australia: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took the oath of office Monday and immediately flew to a Tokyo summit…

KABUL: Women television presenters on Afghanistan’s leading news channels on Sunday vowed to speak up for their rights after being…

SYDNEY: Australia’s conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded election defeat Saturday, hours after voters issued a stinging rebuke of his…

SEOUL: US President Joe Biden and South Korea’s new President Yoon Suk-yeol signalled Saturday an expanded military presence in response…

BEIJING: Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents were relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the…

SEOUL: North Korea is poised to conduct a nuclear test, Seoul said Thursday, as the United States warned it could…

TOKYO: The Japanese island of Okinawa marks 50 years since the end of US rule Sunday, with discontent simmering about…

SEOUL: North Korea announced 21 new “fever” deaths Saturday and said more than half a million people had been sickened…

PYONGYANG: North Korea confirmed its first-ever COVID cases Thursday and declared a “serious emergency”, with leader Kim Jong Un appearing…

HONG KONG: An elderly Catholic cardinal critical of Beijing and a Cantonese pop star are among a group of veteran…

MANILA: The son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos cemented a landslide presidential election victory Tuesday, after Filipinos bet a…

SEOUL: South Korea’s new leader Yoon Suk-yeol on Tuesday called on the North to give up its nuclear weapons in…

MANILA: The son of late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos on Tuesday headed for a historic landslide victory in the country’s…

HONG KONG: A former security chief who oversaw the crackdown on Hong Kong’s democracy movement was anointed the business hub’s…

MANILA: More than 60,000 security forces in the Philippines were on alert Sunday to safeguard ballots and polling stations on…

SEOUL: North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile Saturday, Seoul said, its second missile launch in three days, after the…

MANILA: Hundreds of Philippine priests on Thursday endorsed the main rival to former dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s son, just days ahead…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong has emerged a more unequal city, its freedoms curtailed and international shine dulled after five years…

SEOUL: North Korea fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, Seoul said, a week after Kim Jong Un vowed to boost Pyongyang’s…

MANILA: Leni Robredo was a neophyte congresswoman in 2016 when she came from behind to narrowly beat Ferdinand Marcos Junior…

HONG KONG: Hong Kong has plummeted down an international press freedom chart as authorities have wielded a draconian new security…

MANILA: Eight people died, including six children, when a fire ripped through a poor community in the Philippines capital of…

TAIPEI: Taiwan will not act “as cruelly as China” in imposing lockdowns, its premier said Sunday, despite surging coronavirus infection…

BEIJING: Rescuers pulled a sixth survivor from a collapsed building in central China Sunday, state media reported, two days into…

BEIJING, China: Dozens of people were trapped under a building which collapsed in central China, officials said Saturday, as rescuers…

SINGAPORE: A mentally disabled Malaysian man was hanged in Singapore on Wednesday, his family said, after losing a long legal…

YANGON, Myanmar: A Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption,…

BEIJING, China: Beijing launched mass coronavirus testing on Tuesday for nearly all its 21 million residents, as fears grew that…

LAOAG, Philippines: If the son of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos wins the May 9 presidential election, he will not…

SHANGHAI, China: Shanghai reported 39 COVID deaths Sunday, its highest daily toll despite weeks of lockdowns, while China’s capital Beijing…

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan: A bomb blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 33 people including children,…

BEIJING, China: The cause of China’s deadliest air crash in decades remains a mystery, with authorities giving few details in…

MANILA: Three rivals of Philippine presidential candidate Leni Robredo refused to back her campaign Sunday, dousing speculation they would withdraw…

SEOUL: Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a new guided weapons system to improve North Korea’s “tactical nukes”, state…

KAYIN STATE, Myanmar: A troupe of Myanmar folk singers and satirists are taking their new show on a jungle tour,…

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