Asia

HONG KONG: Five Hong Kongers have been arrested for allegedly setting up job scams in which victims were lured to Southeast Asia and then held against their will, police announced on...

TOKYO: Japan is considering the deployment of 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to boost its counterattack capability against China, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday (Aug 21). The missiles would be...

Mr Ismail Sabri is the third prime minister appointed in this parliamentary term. After GE14 in May 2018, Dr Mahathir Mohamad become Malaysia’s 7th prime minister for 22 months under...

BANJARMASIN: With a huge nose and reddish-brown skin, the proboscis monkey is not everyone’s favourite animal. But Indonesian Amalia Rezeki, conservationist and founder of the friends of proboscis monkey voluntary...

BEIJING: Plunging water levels of the Yangtze River have revealed a submerged island in China’s southwestern city of Chongqing and a trio of Buddhist statues on it that are believed...

SHIMLA, India: At least 15 people were killed in India after heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides near the Himalayan foothills, authorities said on Saturday (Aug 20). Flooding and...

JAKARTA: Indonesia has confirmed its first monkeypox infection, detected in a person who had returned from an unidentified country with documented cases, a health ministry spokesman said on Saturday (Aug...

MANILA: Dozens of people were injured in the southern Philippines on Saturday (Aug 20) in a crush of students and parents seeking a cash handout ahead of the reopening of...

BANGKOK: The death toll from a Thai nightclub inferno has risen to 20, health officials said, as victims continue to receive medical treatment. The blaze broke out on Aug 5...

Around 60 sculptures were on display, some silly but others designed to showcase the artists' formidable skills. "They are not real, but they look so real. It's wonderful," said exhibition...