Asia

HANOI: Vietnam supports Cambodia’s plan to build a canal from the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast and would…

PREK TAKEO: Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday (Aug 5) launched a controversial US$1.7 billion canal project that aims…

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus was sworn in as the head of the country’s caretaker government on Thursday…

Hasina’s Awami League party does not figure in the interim government after she resigned on Monday following weeks of violence…

TASK FORCE The Japanese government set up a special task force in response to the quakes, according to a statement.…

In another session at the same Johor Bahru Court Complex, Leang received six other charges. Four of them involved the…

Last year, Move Forward’s influential rivals coalesced to block the party from forming a government. But the progressive movement remains…

Mr Prabowo, the current defence minister, won the presidential election by a landslide, beating PDI-P’s candidate Ganjar Pranowo and another…

As sea levels rise, the tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati has tussled with alternate plans for the future: Leaving for…

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters, many wielding sticks, crowded into a central Dhaka square on Sunday (Aug 4) for mass…

Sabah has for years been trying to negotiate a return of its entitlement of 40 per cent of its revenue…

BEIJING: Beijing police have arrested a woman suspected of posting defamatory comments on social media about Chinese athletes and coaches…