HO CHI MINH – At exactly 9pm on Wednesday, brilliant fireworks lit up the skyline of HCM City, greeted by cheers and applause from thousands of residents.

Nationalist groups rallied in front of a Bangkok hotel on Thursday as the defence ministers of Thailand and Cambodia held a General Border Committee (GBC) meeting, expressing concern that Thailand might be at a disadvantage in discussions o...

ROME - Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, the Spanish-born archbishop of Rabat, admits he is a little anxious ahead of his first conclave, although also curious.

DAMASCUS - Israel struck Syria on Wednesday in what it called a “warning” against attacks on the Druze minority, in a military intervention that came as sectarian clashes spread near Damascus, killing 13 people.

BET SHEMESH (ISRAEL) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday that rapidly spreading wildfires near Jerusalem could reach the city, as he declared the situation a "national emergency".

SEOUL – A substantial number of single parents in South Korea have low financial instability and far less time to spend with their children than two-parent households, a study by a state-funded research institute showed Tuesday.

TOKYO – The government is considering presenting a plan to increase the number of cars imported under a preferential certification system as a possible card to play in tariff negotiations with the United States, according to government sour...

ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday said Pakistan will not strike India but reserves the right to retaliate, as he concluded his speech in the Senate on the recent tensions with India and diplomatic overtures deployed by Islam...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's information minister said early Wednesday that Islamabad had "credible intelligence" that India was planning an imminent military strike and he vowed a "decisive response", as worries of spiralling conflict grew over...

HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam mounted its biggest-ever celebration of the fall of Saigon on its 50th anniversary Wednesday, including Chinese troops for the first time after Xi Jinping visited to portray Beijing as a more reliable partner than...