SEOUL: South Korea reported three more deaths from the MERS virus yesterday, bringing the number of fatalities to 23 and…

PHNOM PENH: More than 200 Cambodian fishermen rescued from ‘slave-like conditions’ on Thai fishing boats in Indonesian waters returned home…

KUALA CANGKOI, Indonesia: Muhammad Yunus came ashore in Indonesia by accident after a harrowing boat journey — but he and…

BEIJING: China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and…

BEIJING: A knife-wielding man injured four people, including one seriously, in southern China’s Guangxi region yesterday, police said, the latest…

BEIJING: China yesterday said it would welcome only an anti-independence candidate at Taiwan’s presidential election in January, offering its first…

COPENHAGEN: Polls opened in Denmark yesterday in an election that was too close to call, after a three-week campaign focusing…

WASHINGTON: A white gunman shot and killed nine people at a historic black church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, late…