• Thu
  • Oct 3, 2013
  • Updated: 1:19am

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.

11:37PM

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

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