A poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, has been hit by highly pathogenic avian influenza, Japan’s agriculture ministry said Thursday.It is the first bird flu outbreak confirmed in the
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will visit the Philippines and China from November 16 to 19 to attend the South Korea-ASEAN summit in Manila and APEC summit in Shenzhen,
Indonesia’s Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has resigned, an aide said on Wednesday (Nov 11), a move that risks further political turbulence in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.Gibran, the 39-year-old son of
The tide of history cannot be stopped, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, as he urged complete “reunification” of Taiwan with the motherland and pledged to do so peacefully,
Saudi Arabia said debris from two ballistic missiles intercepted by its air defences fell in the Mecca region on Wednesday, as the kingdom and Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis continued to trade
Russia and Ukraine exchanged attacks on each other’s capitals early on Thursday, a day after peace talks ended and as US envoys were set to travel to Moscow to meet
A three-story building next to a construction site collapsed in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing at least two people and sending more than 10 others to hospital, New York City officials
Senior US Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Coons asked the Trump administration to preserve all documents tied to Nvidia’s chip exports to China, amid growing scrutiny over CEO Jensen
Taiwan is participating in this year’s APEC leaders’ summit in China on the principle of interaction on an “equal basis”, President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday, after his government called
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, who was transferred from jailthis week to serve the rest of his sentence for a graft conviction at home, can be returned to prison