BEIJING: China will keep its economic policies steady while making them more effective in 2020 to help achieve its annual growth target, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday (Dec 12), after a meeting of top leaders ended, amid a bruising trade war with the United States. Citing a statement …

HONG KONG: Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters gathered on Thursday (Dec 12) to mark six months since their first major clash with police when they blocked legislators from advancing a detested extradition Bill that has since been scrapped. On Jun 12, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to …

Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim was Thursday questioned by police over allegations he sexually assaulted a male former aide, the latest such scandal to hit the veteran politician’s career.

YANGON: Crowds have gathered for the past three evenings in a small park in downtown Myanmar’s capital Yangon to hear accusations of genocide delivered thousands of miles away at the United Nation’s top court in The Hague. Truck drivers, cyclists, government staff, monks and nuns, clustered round …

GUWAHATI, India: Violent mobs in India’s northeastern state of Assam torched buildings and clashed with police on Thursday (Dec 12), leaving two dead and 11 with bullet wounds, as protests grew over a new citizenship law for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbouring countries. Prime Minister …

Thailand’s election authority on Wednesday launched a bid to knock-out the country’s main anti-army opposition over alleged illegal loans by the party’s leader, a billionaire who has harangued the military-backed government since seizing the political limelight.

AHMEDABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not complicit in deadly religious riots that broke out in 2002 in one of the bloodiest episodes in independent India, according to a judge-led commission report released Wednesday (Dec 11). Modi was the chief minister of the western state of …

North Korean state-backed hackers appear to be cooperating with Eastern European cybercriminals, a report said on Wednesday, a finding that suggests digital gangsters and state-backed spies are finding common ground online.

LAHORE, Pakistan: At least three heart patients died on Wednesday (Dec 11) after a group of lawyers attacked doctors at a cardiac hospital in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, officials and ministers said. “Three patients including an elderly woman died after doctors failed to provide them timely …