South Korea and the United States have mapped out a new strategy to counter the growing threat of a North Korean nuclear or chemical weapons attack, their defence ministers said yesterday.
- Thu
- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 1:19am
Myanmar has signed a revised contract that increases its share of the profits from a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine, the country's largest, officials said.
11:35PM
One of Vietnam’s best known dissidents was jailed for two and a half years on Wednesday as hundreds of supporters protested in the capital against the communist state’s crackdown on dissent.
7:36PM
Terrified women and children hid in forests and security forces patrolled tense villages in western Myanmar yesterday, residents said, after sectarian clashes which left five Muslims dead.
11:34PM
A Thai court jailed a woman for five years on Wednesday for posting online comments insulting to the monarchy, the second ruling of its kind this week under tough lese-majeste laws carrying...
6:24PM
At the end of a quiet lane snaking through the well-heeled Islamabad suburb of Chak Shahzad, a terracotta-coloured house modelled on a Moroccan courtyard home stands amid spreading orchards and...
8:27PM
On one side of the battle are the countless swarms of mosquitoes that thrive in Pakistan's steamy summer months. On the other, vast quantities of hungry fish conscripted into a fight against a...
8:20PM
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruled out resigning ahead of a meeting with a ruling party leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, following their public clash over policy.
3:18PM
South Korea displayed its longest-range missile capable of striking all of North Korea, and other sophisticated weapons, at a military parade yesterday, a display of force meant to show Pyongyang...
10:55PM
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was on Wednesday accused by the opposition of “back-pedalling at 100 miles an hour” on his hardline asylum-seeker policies during a sensitive diplomatic visit...
4:21PM
US President Barack Obama has scrapped scheduled visits to Malaysia and the Philippines due to the US federal government shutdown.
12:12AM
South Korea and the United States signed a new strategic pact on Wednesday that provides a “tailored” deterrence against the specific threat of a nuclear attack from North Korea.
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