PINGTUNG (Taiwan): Taiwan’s navy showed off its latest long-range surveillance drone yesterday as the island’s out gunned armed forces push to counter China’s increasingly muscular
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed “great satisfaction” after receiving a letter from US President Donald Trump ahead of a second summit between
BEIJING: China said yesterday that Chinese-Australian author and democracy advocate Yang Hengjun was detained on national security grounds, becoming the latest Western citizen to face
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s strongman premier Hun Sen yesterday called on his country’s military to “destroy” opponents if the government comes under threat, in a tirade
ADELAIDE (Australia): Temperatures in southern Australia topped 49 degrees yesterday, shattering previous records as sizzling citizens received free beer and heat-stressed bats fell from trees.
SEOUL: The woman who started South Korea’s #MeToo movement said yesterday she hoped other victims will take heart from the jailing of the senior prosecutor
WASHINGTON: The White House is seeking to evaluate what programmes would be highly impacted if the already month-long partial government shutdown continues for weeks longer,
WASHINGTON: United States (US) President Donald Trump said in a late-night tweet Wednesday that he would deliver the State of the Union (SOTU) address in
JAKARTA: The severe floods that have ravaged South Sulawesi since Tuesday have claimed 21 lives so far, according to the authorities. Indonesia’s National Agency for Disaster
TOKYO: Japan logged a trade deficit last year for the first time since 2015, with export growth slowing amid tensions between the country’s two biggest
