Asia

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s top court on Saturday (Aug 27) condemned as a smear attempt the leaking of an alleged guilty verdict against the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak...

BANGKOK: A United States coast guard cutter conducting patrols as part of an international mission to prevent illegal fishing was recently unable to get clearance for a scheduled port call...

LIMA: LGBT activists in Peru held a protest on Friday (Aug 26) questioning how their government handled the death of a Peruvian transgender man in Indonesia earlier this month who...

LAKSHADWEEP, India: There is a treasure in the ocean so valuable that mafias from Mexico to Africa to Japan are turning their attention to poaching rather than drugs. It is...

TOKYO: A nuclear renaissance might be happening in the most unlikely of places.  Just over a decade on from Fukushima, the northern Japanese region that became globally synonymous with the...

Without question, the Bill’s symbolic measures make for good domestic politics in the US. After all, China is one of the rare topics of bipartisan agreement in Washington these days....

LONDON: More than 115,000 workers at Britain's Royal Mail began the first of four days of strike action on Friday (Aug 26) in a pay dispute which the postal group...

BERLIN: It was when the Taliban came to arrest her and her brother in October that Fawzia Saidzada, an Afghan journalist and women's rights activist, finally decided it was time...

NAJIB RETURNS TO COURT Having been sent to jail on Tuesday after losing the appeal in one of the smaller cases related to the siphoning off of money from the...

HONG KONG: Macao has fixed a limit of 6,000 gaming tables and 12,000 gaming machines for new casino operators early next year, as well as minimum income levels for each...