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Bangkok: Thai police on Tuesday called off a raid to arrest a prominent Buddhist monk wanted for suspected money laundering after devotees barricaded...

Phom Penh: Cambodia's exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy was sentenced to five years in prison in absentia on Tuesday for posting a fake government...

Melbourne: Unusual torrential rain in Australia's outback turned the Uluru monolith into a series of cascading waterfalls and triggered flash floods,...

Jakarta: Police in the Indonesian capital found on Tuesday six people, including a nine-year-old child, dead from suffocation in a tiny bathroom where armed...

Jakarta: An Indonesian court will proceed with a controversial blasphemy trial against Jakarta's governor, who is accused of insulting the holy book, a...

Honolulu: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday stopped at several memorials in Hawaii, one day before he visits the site of the 1941 bombing of...

Taipei: Taiwan warned on Tuesday that "the threat of our enemies is growing day by day", as Chinese warships led by the country's sole...

Gimpo (South Korea): Korean Air Lines said it will allow crew members to "readily use stun guns" to manage violent passengers, and hire more male...

Seoul: A South Korean ruling party faction said on Tuesday it would form a new party, and key members said they hoped outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban...

Moscow: Russia has found the main flight recorder from a military plane that crashed into the Black Sea killing all 92 on board, the Defence Ministry said...