HANOI: Vietnam has sentenced 10 people to death for smuggling meth, ketamine and ecstasy across the country by train, state media reported yesterday as the
KOKOPO: Papua New Guinea dispatched assessment teams Wednesday to get a full picture of the damage caused by a violent 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck
COLOMBO: A Briton whose bride died on their honeymoon two days after arriving in Sri Lanka will be allowed to return home after a court
PHNOM PENH: Eleven women allegedly paid to be surrogate mothers have been released on bail after agreeing to keep the babies, Cambodia’s trafficking czar said
VIENTIANE: The Plain of Jars in central Laos’ Xieng Khuang province is to be listed as the country’s third World Heritage Site, reported Xinhua news
SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Tuesday became the first major US city to prohibit facial recognition technology by government agencies in what advocates said aims to
CHENGDU: A 29-year-old man in China received a small intestine transplantation from his father, making him the 16th patient in the country to receive the
PARIS: France paid its emotional final respects Tuesday to two commandos killed during a raid to rescue four hostages in the Sahel region of Africa
KATHMANDU: Eight Nepali climbers reached the top of Mount Everest on Tuesday, opening the route for a potentially record number of climbers to summit the
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s ruling military council said Tuesday that a brother of ousted president Omar al-Bashir who it previously announced had been detained was actually not
