Asia

HANOI: Floods have inundated Vietnam’s north, including the capital Hanoi, as the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi continues to exact a deadly toll.…

BANGKOK: A former senior Thai police officer denied charges of evidence-tampering on Tuesday (Sep 10) in a deadly hit-and-run crash involving…

TACHILEIK, Myanmar: Days of rain have lashed the Myanmar town of Tachileik and triggered flooding that has knocked out power…

DILI: Pope Francis hosted a mass for hundreds of thousands of devotees in Timor-Leste on Tuesday (Sep 10), rallying the faithful…

KOLKATA: Junior doctors in India’s state of West Bengal vowed on Tuesday (Sep 10) to keep up a protest strike…

SINGAPORE: Johor’s chief minister has vowed to take “strict action” against those contributing to toxic chemical pollution, after ordering the…

HANOI: Typhoon Yagi and the landslides and floods it triggered have killed at least 58 people with 40 others missing…

HANOI: Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, was downgraded to a tropical depression on Sunday (Sep 8), after wreaking…

A suspect has been arrested along with the former principal of R G Kar Medical College where the victim was…

CLERICAL ABUSE CASES While Timor-Leste is devoutly Catholic, it is also one of the world’s poorest countries, heavily reliant on…

“PEACE AND FREEDOM” Timor-Leste has a complex history marked by centuries-long Portuguese rule, decades of occupation by neighbouring Indonesia, and…

SINGAPORE: A senior Malaysian politician under police investigation for urging the government not to roll out proposed mandatory halal food…