Tag: Geography of Asia

Military tensions on the Korean peninsula should not prevent the nuclear-armed North sending a team to the 2018 Winter Olympics ...

Reports suggest some four female Ghanaians have returned from Kuwait with some form of amnesia. The four ladies are said ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday China's leaders told him they were prepared to go to war over competing claims ...

Syria on Friday condemned a US-led coalition strike on pro-government forces as a "brazen attack" and said it would "not ...

For the first time in a decade a Thai lake has given up its dazzling secret -- the pink blooms ...

Two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 jets have conducted an "unprofessional" intercept of a US aircraft, the US military said. The US ...

A Japanese man has been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of reptiles out of the archipelago, ...

Japan said Friday it scrambled fighter jets after a Chinese vessel sailing in disputed waters launched a drone, the latest ...

Up to 1.3 million fans will visit Qatar during the 2022 World Cup, an official said Thursday, equivalent to half ...

In the first concrete results from talks this week on ending Syria's conflict, the United Nations said Thursday the warring ...

With a little under 2,022 days until the Qatar World Cup kicks-off, the tiny yet hugely ambitious Gulf state will ...

American country music star Toby Keith will perform in Riyadh on Saturday in a rare concert in the ultra-conservative kingdom, ...

Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev triggered a social media storm on Thursday after she attended the Cannes film festival in ...

The Islamic State group killed more than 50 people in an attack on two government-held villages in central Syria's Hama ...

Israel on Thursday released thousands of previously classified official documents charting political decisions during the 1967 Six-Day War when it ...

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) took a step towards easing tensions in the South China Sea, ...

A multi-storey wedding venue collapsed during construction in Sri Lanka on Thursday, injuring at least 20 workers and leaving three ...

The first ever ferry service linking Russia and North Korea was launched on Thursday, the company operating it said, hoping ...

Four Indonesian soldiers have been killed and eight others injured by artillery fire in an accident during training on a ...

In a remote northern Pakistani valley surrounded by giant ice-capped peaks, villagers gather to watch a game of Buzkashi, an ...