TOKYO: A Japanese firm said yesterday it was recalling tens of thousands of pouches of baby food after an insect…

PARIS: Seven people have been detained in the hunt for brothers suspected of gunning down 12 people in an Islamist…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka went to the polls yesterday in its tightest election in decades, with its strongman president battling for…

SEOUL: North Korea’s top military body issued fresh warnings yesterday to the United States and South Korea over their ‘hostile’…

BANGKOK: Thailand’s government yesterday urged supporters of ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to stay out of Bangkok when the legislature…

HONG KONG: The teenage face of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, 18-year-old Joshua Wong, slammed the authorities yesterday in a court…

BEIJING: A Chinese city will spend US$24,000 on Trojan horse computer software for monitoring mobile phones, state media reported yesterday,…

SHANGHAI: China has removed the Communist Party chief of Nanjing city from his post for violating the law, state media…