'Still time' to find solution

There is still time to find a solution to Britain's exit from the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday, voicing optimism on
5 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Cambodia govt launches Khmer Rouge map app

The department of Media and Communication (DMC) at the Royal University of Phnom Penh has launched a mobile app and website – Mapping Memories Cambodia (MMC) – to help the public, especially young people, learn about the important locations associated with the Khmer Rouge regime.
5 February 2019, 05:11 AM

‘Smart farming’ plows ahead in Japan

“Smart farming,” which utilises cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and a general population reluctant to toil in the soil.
4 February 2019, 06:30 AM

'Strangled democracy in Bengal'

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is making efforts
2 February 2019, 18:00 PM

BJP faces ire of allies

The Bharatiya Janta Party may increasingly find it difficult to push through the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 fearing the risk of
2 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Sharif to be shifted to hospital

The Punjab government in Pakistan yesterday consented to a medical board's recommendation to shift former premier Nawaz Sharif
2 February 2019, 18:00 PM

India appoints new CBI chief

Former Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police Rishi Kumar Shukla, a 1983-batch officer, has been appointed the Director of the
2 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Thai govt apologises for Bangkok’s hazardous smog

Thai government apologises to Bangkok citizens about the air pollution that continues to disrupt their daily lives and is threatening their health.
2 February 2019, 05:38 AM

Lunar nights colder than expected

China's lunar lander has woken from a freezing fortnight-long hibernation to find night-time temperatures on the moon's dark side are colder than previously thought, the national space agency said yesterday.
31 January 2019, 18:21 PM

Japan probes 'uranium' on online auction site

Japanese authorities are investigating how a substance that appears to be uranium came to be offered for sale on an online auction site,
31 January 2019, 18:18 PM

Trump-Kim summit to be held somewhere in Asia

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he was dispatching a team to make preparations for the next summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be held somewhere in Asia late in February.
31 January 2019, 18:09 PM

Sultan Abdullah sworn in as new King of Malaysia

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad reads out the instrument of proclamation, officially signifying Sultan Abdullah's ascension to the throne as the new head of state of Malaysia, in accordance with the laws and the Federal Constitution.
31 January 2019, 04:45 AM

Schools shut as toxic smog chokes Bangkok

Toxic smog forced hundreds of Bangkok schools to close yesterday, as authorities struggle to manage a pollution crisis that has stirred widespread health fears and taken on a political edge just weeks before elections.
30 January 2019, 18:00 PM

People with HIV shocked by data leak in Singapore

The revelation that the personal information of 14,200 people with HIV was leaked has stunned people living with the virus in Singapore.
30 January 2019, 05:21 AM

Islamic State claims responsibility for Philippines church bombing

Islamic State claims responsibility for twin bombings that killed at least 20 people during a Catholic Church service in the Philippines, the militant group's news agency Amaq says.
28 January 2019, 05:41 AM

Alibaba slams US treatment of Huawei

A senior Alibaba executive slams the United States’ treatment of China’s Huawei Technologies as “extremely unfair”, saying measures by the country to curb the firm’s access to their markets was “very politically motivated”.
25 January 2019, 15:33 PM

Indonesia floods, landslides death toll climbs to 59

Floods and landslides in Indonesia have killed at least 59 people, the government says, after heavy rain pounded Sulawesi island and forced thousands to flee their homes.
25 January 2019, 10:19 AM

Fear of migrants makes people crazy

Pope Francis wasted no time wading in on the standoff over funding for a US-Mexico border wall on Wednesday as he started his trip to Panama, saying on the plane from Rome that hostility to immigrants was driven by irrational fear.
24 January 2019, 18:00 PM

US-N Korea talks approach

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spoke highly of US President Donald Trump, state media said yesterday, and expressed satisfaction over the results of talks between officials from both countries about a second summit between Kim and Trump.
24 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Malaysian royals pick new king after historic abdication

Malaysia's royal families were electing a king after the last monarch abdicated following his reported marriage to a Russian ex-beauty queen, with a sports-loving sultan in pole position for the role.
24 January 2019, 07:11 AM