HANOI: Vietnam president Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned after the ruling Communist Party blamed him for “violations and wrongdoing” by officials under his control while prime minister, the government said on Tuesday (Jan 17). Phuc, 68, who was premier from 2016 to 2021, has held…

HONG KONG: Scores of mainland Chinese travellers are rushing to Hong Kong to receive mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which are not available on the mainland, as the country grapples with a torrent of infections that have overwhelmed its health system. A private hospital in the special…

KLUANG, Johor: Two elephants entered a housing area in the Kluang district in Malaysia’s Johor state on Wednesday (Jan 11) night, leaving about 2,000 people in the neighbourhood concerned over the mammals’ possible return.  An 83-year-old resident, M Pavayee Ammah, said she only realised the presence…

NEW DELHI: India’s army chief said on Thursday (Jan 12) the border situation with China is stable but unpredictable after a nearly two-and-a-half-year standoff between tens of thousands of soldiers from both countries in the eastern Ladakh area. General Manoj Pande told reporters the countries…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday (Jan 12) that inaction by the country’s former president and four others led to Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people and ordered them to pay compensation for violating the basic rights…

KUALA LUMPUR: The “traitors” among the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) who have become enemies from within the party should be booted, its youth chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said on Thursday (Jan 12). In his policy speech on the second day of UMNO’s 2022 general…