Category : Asia Pacific

Seoul, Dec 7 - South Korea, the US and Japan held their first trilateral working-level talks on Thursday on ways to boost cooperation against North Korea's growing cyber threats, in a follow-up to the summit among their leaders in August, Seoul's Foreign Ministry

Seoul, Dec 6 - South Korea has requested the UAE correct the faulty posting of North Korea's national flag as that of South Korea on the website of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Seoul's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Seoul, Nov 27 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un cast his ballot in local elections held over the weekend to pick new deputies for local assemblies of provinces, cities and counties across the nation, with voter turnout recorded at almost 100 per cent,

Antananarivo, Nov 25 - Madagascar's incumbent President Andry Rajoelina has won the presidential election again by garnering more than 50 per cent of the votes, as per preliminary results released Saturday by the country's Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI).

Tokyo, Nov 24 - Four people were injured on Friday after a car driven by an 80-year-old man rammed into pedestrians on a sidewalk in central Tokyo, according to police in the Japanese capital.

Islamabad, Nov 24 - The Pakistani Foreign Ministry confirmed that the nation has made a formal request to join th BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa -- bloc, saying it is an important group of developing countries.

Colombo, Nov 24 - The Central Bank of Sri Lanka on Friday announced its decision to reduce its Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) by 100 basis points to 9.00 per cent and 10.00 per cent, respectively.

Beijing, Nov 24 - Temperatures in central and eastern China plummeted on Friday and cold air is expected to continue gripping various parts of the country over the next 10 days, meteorological authorities said.

Ankara, Nov 24 - The Turkish central bank delivered another hefty interest rate increase, the sixth such increase in a row, showcasing its determination to reign in high inflation, experts said.

Beijing, Nov 23 - China's meteorological authorities on Thursday renewed a yellow alert for cold waves, with temperature drops and strong winds expected to hit various parts of the country in the coming days.

Tel Aviv, Nov 22 - David Barnea, the chief of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, will travel to Qatar and meet Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani to discuss the intricacies of hostage release, which is scheduled to take place from

Seoul, Nov 22 - North Korea's claimed success in placing its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit on its third attempt has raised the possibility it could have received technological assistance from Russiaa media report said on Wednesday.

Islamabad, Nov 21 - The former husband of Bushra Bibi, the third and incumbent wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, has alleged that the latter forcefully ended his 28-year-long marriage.

Tokyo, Nov 21 - At least nine people were injured after a car plowed into a group of pedestrians on Tuesday in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka, according to local media reports.

New Delhi, Nov 21 - The mysterious journey of Apu Barua, a 26-year-old Bangladeshi national, took an unexpected turn when he was apprehended in Germany after successfully deceiving immigration authorities in multiple countries over the past two years.

Singapore, Nov 21 - A 56-year-old Indian-origin prison warden has been convicted in Singapore for seeking bribes of SG$133,000 in exchange for transferring an inmate out of his jail cluster.

Dhaka, Nov 20 -Bangladesh reported 1,291 new dengue cases and six more deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the tally to 301,225 and the death toll to 1,549 since January this year, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said.

Manila, Nov 18 - The death toll from the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck southern Philippines rose to six, with two others missing, the disaster agency said on Saturday.