Politics

SEOUL (S.Korea): South Korea asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to pressure Japan to remove a reference to South Korea-controlled...

SEOUL (S.Korea): As Kim Jong Un looks to revamp domestic politics, North Korea's ruling party has amended its rules to...

MANILA (Philippines): The Philippines has protested China's continuing "illegal presence and activities" near an island in the South China Sea...

AMMAN (Syria): Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad...

BAMAKO: Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening...

Myanmar's junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home and would appear...

TAIPEI (Taiwan): A Taiwanese official accused China on Saturday of spreading fake news about the COVID-19 situation on the island,...

KATHMANDU (NEPAL): Nepal plunged into fresh political turmoil on Saturday as President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved parliament and fixed general...

JAKARTA (Indonesia): A new security crackdown on armed separatists in the central highlands of Indonesia's restive Papua region will be...

WASHINGTON (US) -South Korean President Moon Jae-in will on Friday become the second world, and Asian, leader welcomed by President...