April 04, 2014 3:55 PM KHOST , Afghanistan (AFP) - One female Western journalist was shot dead and another wounded in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost on Friday, on the eve of the country's presidential election, police said. ...
April 04, 2014 3:57 PM MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - The Pakistani Taleban on Friday extended a ceasefire by six days to allow the government more time to meet their demands of releasing "non-combatant" prisoners and pulling back soldiers, the militia said in a statement. ...
April 04, 2014 10:23 AM SEOUL (REUTERS) - A Mongolian-flagged cargo ship has sunk off the southern coast of South Korea, with most of the 16 North Korean crew members on board missing, South Korean coast guard officials said on Friday. ...
April 04, 2014 12:05 AM NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indian election frontrunner Narendra Modi, the vegetarian Hindu nationalist tipped to be the next prime minister, warned Thursday the country's expanding meat industry will lead to its "ruin". ...
April 03, 2014 9:20 PM TOKYO (REUTERS) - Mazda Motor Corp is to recall about 88,000 vehicles globally to fix a programming glitch in its engine control computer. ...
April 03, 2014 1:27 PM ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is on trial for treason, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt as a bomb went off shortly before his convoy was due to pass early Thursday, police said. ...
April 03, 2014 2:54 PM NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), frontrunner to form the next government, faced criticism on Thursday for failing to release its manifesto just days before polls open. ...
April 03, 2014 4:39 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - Reports that police killed 15 people and injured more than 300 during protests in southern China last weekend are false, the website of The People's Daily, the ruling Communist Party's official newspaper, said on Thursday. ...
April 03, 2014 5:29 PM TOKYO (AFP) - Small tsunami waves hit northern Japan early on Thursday following a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake thousands of kilometres away across the Pacific Ocean in Chile after officials issued an evacuation advisory for certain areas. ...
April 03, 2014 6:32 PM BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese police have detained 18 people over large rallies opposing a chemical plant in Maoming, state-run media reported on Thursday, as locals said the protests had entered a fifth day. ...
April 03, 2014 7:41 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - Nervous about a repeat of last month's deadly knife attack at a Chinese train station, a well-known Buddhist temple in eastern China has drafted some of its monks into a new "anti-terrorist" squad, state media said on Thursday. ...
April 03, 2014 10:52 AM TOKYO (AFP) - Japan is cancelling its next Antarctic whaling hunt for the first time in more than 25 years, an official said on Thursday, just days after the UN's International Court of Justice ordered an end to the controversial practice. ...
April 03, 2014 11:43 AM BEIJING (REUTERS) - A former Chinese mining magnate with suspected links to the eldest son of retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang has denied leading a 36-member gang on a crime spree of murder and gun-running over the past two decades. ...
April 03, 2014 12:40 PM BEIJING (AFP) - China has announced a set of steps to boost slowing growth in the world's number-two economy, including extending tax breaks for small businesses and support measures for poor urban districts. ...
April 03, 2014 12:50 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - Jack Ma, the founder of China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the world's biggest e-commerce firm, will pay 3.3 billion yuan (S$671 million) to take a controlling share of financial software firm, Hundsun Technologies Inc. ...
April 03, 2014 12:57 PM SEOUL (REUTERS) - A drone found last week while probably returning to North Korea had flown over the presidential palace in the South before crashing near the border, but would not have been able to carry a bomb, an official said on Thursday. ...
April 03, 2014 3:24 AM TOKYO (AFP) - Japan issued a tsunami alert early Thursday following a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake across the Pacific Ocean in Chile but said it was not likely to cause damage. ...
April 03, 2014 4:47 AM WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two prominent Hong Kong democracy campaigners on Wednesday urged Western powers to speak out against what they described as Beijing's growing interference in the semi-autonomous financial hub. ...
April 02, 2014 1:03 PM SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - China experimented in the past with various political systems, including multi-party democracy, but it did not work, President Xi Jinping said during a visit to Europe, warning that copying foreign political or development models could be catastrophic. ...
April 02, 2014 1:44 PM BRISBANE (AFP) - A Frenchwoman has become the fourth foreign student to be brutally murdered in the Australian city of Brisbane in almost as many months, police said Wednesday. ...