TAIPEI: A smuggling scandal implicating Taiwan’s presidential bodyguards has engulfed China Airlines after the island’s largest carrier revealed huge quantities of duty-free cigarettes were routinely
TOKYO: Japanese police yesterday raided the home of the main suspect in a deadly arson attack that killed 34 people at an anime firm in
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said two missiles fired under his supervision were newly designed tactical weapons that sent a “solemn warning”
HANOI: A haul of frozen tiger carcasses found in a car in Hanoi has led to the arrest of a key wildlife trafficking suspect, Vietnamese
SINGAPORE: The leader of a new Singapore opposition party said yesterday he was concerned that an anti-fake news law, which rights groups fear could stifle
BRUSSELS: The European Union on Thursday flatly rejected an aggressive push by Britain’s new prime minister Boris Johnson to rewrite the Brexit agreement. Chief Brexit
TUNIS: Tunisia has less than two months to organise snap elections following the death of president Beji Caid Essebsi, amid uncertainty over who could step
TRIPOLI / GENEVA: About 115 people are missing and feared to have drowned and another 134 were rescued by Libyan coast guards and local fishermen
The wedge of sea between Japan, Russia, and the Korean peninsula became a new flashpoint this week, with a regional airspace dispute, a seized fishing
From his top cabinet ministers down to his communications staff, Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson has surrounded himself with colleagues who helped him win
