SINGAPORE: About 500 people were evacuated Wednesday after a fire at a luxury hotel in downtown Singapore but there were no injuries, emergency services officials
MADRID: Firefighting crews aided by lighter winds made progress Wednesday in their battle against a wildfire which broke out in northwestern Spain amid unusually warm
BEIJING: Tibetan officials Wednesday defended China’s policies in the southwestern region and called on the international community not to be “bewitched” by the exiled Dalai
CARACAS: A new blackout hit many regions in Venezuela including much of Caracas on Monday, sowing alarm two weeks after a nationwide outage that paralyzed
SYDNEY: Australia’s hard-right One Nation party has been accused of seeking donations from US gun lobby group the National Rifle Association ahead of the upcoming
SEOUL: A Seoul university professor forced students to write her daughter’s thesis to gain entry to an elite dental school, a government report revealed Tuesday,
PALU,Sulawesi: Six months after the calamitous earthquake, tsunami and soil liquefaction in Palu in Central Sulawesi, Mercy Malaysia will be focusing on the upgrading of transit shelters
TORONTO: A woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programmes arrived Monday in Canada with her
Junta primes to retain power after election BANGKOK: Thailand yesterday awaited the results of its first election since a 2014 coup, with the junta primed
TAIPEI: China is trying to establish a “new world media order” to prevent and counter criticism, a project that threatens press freedom globally, watchdog Reporters
