TOKYO: Japan passed legislation to lower the voting age to 18 from its current 20 yesterday, allowing teenagers into polling…

XINLE, China: A Chinese university has earned comparisons with Harry Potter’s Hogwarts due to its bizarre castle campus, but local…

SEOUL: South Korea yesterday announced its 20th death from the MERS virus as criticism grew of efforts to contain the…

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation said yesterday that the MERS outbreak in South Korea was a ‘wakeup call’ and urged…

BANGKOK: An elephant killed a 28-year-old Thai man and injured his colleague as they were eating dinner at a beachside…

JAKARTA: A popular motorbike-hailing app is putting a new, two-wheeled spin on smartphone taxi services in the Indonesian capital, with…

TOKYO: Japan warned China yesterday that its extensive land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea does not make ownership…

CAIRO: An Egyptian court upheld Tuesday a death sentence against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks…