OTTAWA: A total of 10 passengers were hospitalised when all 185 passengers were taken ill on board a plane at a Quebec City airport in
CANBERRA: Thousands of Australians have been left without power as the nation swelters through its worst heatwave since records began, reports Xinhua news agency. The
SINGAPORE: A popular Singapore actor died on Wednesday after an accident during military training in New Zealand, the defence ministry said, pledging to investigate his
JAKARTA: Jakarta’s former governor was released from prison yesterday, nearly two years after his blasphemy conviction fanned fears of religious intolerance in the world’s biggest
SHANGHAI: Chinese scientists announced yesterday they had cloned five monkeys from a single animal that was genetically engineered to have a sleep disorder, saying it
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.
