The world’s largest pension fund in Japan’s, reported a loss of US$4.5 billion on total assets during the three months through September, as its holdings of...
As a toxic haze engulfed key cities in northern China on Tuesday, authorities issued their strongest air pollution warnings, warning the public that visibility might decrease...
(CTN News) – On Tuesday, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of NAB graft Cases verdicts by accountability courts. The orders were made when the court...
An official in India stated on Monday that the dead toll from a train disaster in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh has increased to 13,...
As China grapples with an ageing population and a historic drop in birth rates, President Xi Jinping said women play a key role and must develop...
The sighting of an elderly woman brandishing a BB gun in public in Taiwan has caused widespread alarm on social media. On Tuesday, an image of...
Thailand’s Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit reports, Chiang Mai International Airport will begin operating around the clock on Wednesday as part of the government’s Quick-Win economic stimulus...
Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack on Friday, aged 68, just 10 months after leaving office after a decade in which his...
On Thursday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with the new speaker of the United States House of Representatives, saying he hoped the United States Congress...
The Supreme Court of Japan declared on Wednesday that a law forcing transgender persons to undergo sterilisation surgery in order to legally alter their gender is...
According to state-affiliated media in China, Chinese police have saved more than 1,000 cats from being killed and sold as meat. Police in the eastern city...
China’s Xi Jinping has fired his military defence minister, General Li Shangfu, just two months after he vanished from public view. There has been no justification...
The deforestation caused by the rubber farming in Thailand and the world has been significantly underestimated, according to new findings from two scientific studies, with Southeast...
On Monday a Pakistani criminal court indicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his deputy in an official secrets act case, his party said, dealing another...
Christian Erica Robin, a native of the Pakistani city of Karachi, will represent the conservative nation of Pakistan at the Miss Universe competition which has stirred...
The chairman of Tibet’s government-in-exile has encouraged the world community not to follow China’s intention to replace the term “Tibet” with “Xizang” on official diplomatic documents....
In an escalation of their conflict over the death of a Sikh separatist in Canada, India forced the expulsion of 41 diplomats on Thursday after the...
Four years after China’s property giant Country Garden announced a US$1.27 billion development of 3,600 homes in Sydney, Australia the site remains a desolate field with...
The Supreme Court of India has rejected the legalisation of same-sex marriage unions, dashed the aspirations of millions of LGBTQ+ persons seeking marital equality. Instead, the...
Chinese state media reported on Monday that authorities have detained the former chairman of the Bank of China on suspicion of bribery and providing illegitimate loans....