Phnom Penh: A Cambodian court on Tuesday jailed a university student for 18 months for inciting crimes in an anti-government Facebook post that called for...
London: One in six migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong is a victim of forced labour and a significant proportion have been trafficked, rights campaigners...
New Delhi: The number of child labourers aged 14 or below in India dropped to 4.5 million in 2011 from 12.6 million a decade before, said the country's...
Vatican City: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony...
Bangkok: The trial of 92 suspected human traffickers, arrested after the discovery of shallow graves of migrants in Thai jungle, began in Bangkok on Tuesday...
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon test a nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the...
Taipei: Taiwan president-elect Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday her first cabinet would focus on the economic and financial issues, but avoided discussing...
Tokyo: A new name unveiled by Japan's main opposition party and a smaller group with which it is set to merge has come under fire, as analysts warn the...
Naypyitaw:Myanmar's parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the...
New Delhi: A high-level committee of Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) has recommended rustication of Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and...