Australian researchers have developed what is being touted as the first "animal- and human-friendly" technique of masturbating an...

For thousands of Indians and other international visitors, an Australian holiday will become dearer beginning July as Australian tourist visa fees and airport departure tax soar following the Kevin Rudd government's first...

Rajasthan Royals captain-coach Shane Warne and several other leading international cricketers have said they will not return to Jaipur unless they received absolute guarantees about their safety and security and are even contemplating returning...

Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef's lawyers have succeeded in fast-tracking a court challenge securing the release of documents from the immigration department, which they say are crucial to the judicial inquiry into his failed...

New Delhi, My 15 : The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) today inked an agreement with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to promote mutual cooperation in civil aviation between the two organisations....

Kuala Lumpur, May 15 : A Malaysian federal court has ruled that the detention of the five Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF) leaders at the Kamunting Detention Centre is legal, and they will remain incarcerated for another 19 months at least....

London, May 15 : Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl enjoyed romps with teenage rent-boys and transsexual hookers in a Thai sex paradise, it has emerged....

Karachi, May 15 : The Pakistan Government's latest move to create dissension within the ranks of the judiciary by offering to 're-appoint' judges of the high courts, appears to be succeeding partially as the affected judges have started to discuss the merits and demerits of accepting the new oath...

Washington, May 15 : Geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College in the US have estimated that as many as 3.2 million Burmese have been affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis....

Lahore, May 15 : Pakistan's former captain and fast bowling great Wasim Akram will train young pace...

Lahore, May 15 : Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has urged the people to take to the streets for the restoration of sacked Pakistani...

Kathmandu, May 14 : Nepal's women leaders and women's rights activists on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to the government demanding the inclusion of women in the list of 26 Constituent Assembly (CA) members to be nominated by the...

Kathmandu, May 14 : Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Wednesday called for more restraint to be shown in both words and deeds stating the country is going through a sensitive stage in the transitional...

New Delhi, May 14 : The Indian Army on Wednesday asked for flag-meeting with their Pakistani counterparts following a reported violation of the ceasefire pact along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is sending an emergency team to Myanmar to assess the humanitarian crisis triggered by a cyclone more than a week and a-half ago. ...

(AP Photo/Aung Pu via New Words)This May 4, 2008 file photo shows the damaged No. 3 State High School, in Hlaing Tharyar, on the outskirts of Yangon following the cyclone in Hlaing Township,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration says emergency aid from the U.S. to Myanmar (mee-an-MAWR') will continue to flow, despite concerns that the military junta is confiscating shipments intended...

Myanmar 's junta announced Thursday that a pro-military constitution has won overwhelming support in a referendum, which was held despite widespread criticism and in the midst of a national tragedy -...

BURMA today insisted it could handle the massive cyclone relief operation, despite warnings that many more people could die unless aid workers gain access to the two million people in need. ...

Corrected Version YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is organizing an emergency team it hopes to send to Myanmar to assess the humanitarian crisis triggered by a...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon today said he was sending the top UN humanitarian official to cyclone-ravaged Burma, as Southeast Asian nations offered to lead international assistance efforts...

A total of 327.18 tons of aid supplies have so far been transported by the Myanmar authorities to storm-hit areas, especially the Ayeyawaddy delta region, the state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar...

Hanoi - Police in Vietnam made the largest drug bust in their history, arresting four Chinese men and an Indonesian accused of smuggling up to 8.8 metric tons of hashish worth about 90 million...

The Indonesian government has defended its opposition to bringing the issue of relief work in Myanmar to the UN Security Council, saying such a move could lead the country to completely shutting its...

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is extending its "Everyday Low Fares" campaign to all its ASEAN destinations and selected routes between Malaysia and China next week, local media reported on...

YANGON - The Associated Press Another dangerous storm formed yesterday near Myanmar, where the first international aid official allowed into the cyclone-struck Irrawaddy delta described destroyed...

Indonesia 's health minister said Thursday she would start sharing all genetic information about her country's bird flu virus with a new global database, to monitor whether the disease is mutating...

HONG KONG -- Asian bond spreads tightened on Thursday after tamer-than-expected US inflation data was seen giving the Federal Reserve some breathing room to deal with a slowdown in the world's...

SINGAPORE -- Asian currencies were mostly steady on Thursday as stocks edged up due to benign US inflation, but the South Korean won and Malaysian ringgit fell as investors continued to trim their...

5/15/2008, 1:03 a.m. EDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A frustrated U.N. chief said Wednesday he secured support from Myanmar, its neighbors and key donors Wednesday to increase the flow of cyclone...

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) - A suspected missile strike has killed about a dozen people in a Pakistan border village. The attack destroyed a house that was targeted by the U.S. military two years ago in...

International aid agencies mustered everything from anti-snake venom kits to plastic roofing today, warning that a second wave of deaths would follow the Burma cyclone disaster unless the military...

Reports say Burma has invited five neighbouring countries to send aid workers to help victims of the cyclone. With the official death toll estimated to be over 60,000, the UN has warned of a second...

Thousands of Filipinos were displaced after flash floods destroyed several houses in five villages in Negros Occidental, central Philippines, reported local television network ABS-CBN News Thursday....

Thomas Hogue May 15, 2008 - 00:20 a.m. SINGAPORE (AP) - Oil prices dropped below $124 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the U.S. government issued a mixed report on the country's petroleum...

BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- The death toll from a killer cyclone in Myanmar could be "in the region of 100,000 or even more," the chief of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs said...

At least a dozen people, some of them foreign fighters, have been killed in a suspected US air raid in northwestern Pakistan, according to a security...

Under fire for not acting swiftly, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) says it will lead an international "coalition of mercy" to provide assistance to cyclone-hit Burma. "We are now...

here. I came prepared with the thought that I may never return home," Zarny said in fluent Japanese. His is a rare success story in Japan, where many people proudly consider the country to be...

Junardhan, an Indian with a degree in accountancy, is one of almost 150,000 foreigners labouring in Singapore's booming construction sector. Some complain of poor living conditions, over-work,...

DAMADOLA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry residents of a Pakistani village on the Afghan border stopped government officials on Thursday from approaching the ruins of a house struck by two missiles...

The US military has received a ''verbal okay'' for five more C-130 relief flights into Myanmar but is pressing for permission to use helicopters to distribute supplies to cyclone-stricken areas, a...

's military-backed constitution was approved by 92.4 percent in a widely condemned referendum held everywhere except regions hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis, state television said...

YANGON -- Myanmar insisted Thursday that it could handle the massive cyclone relief operation, despite warnings that many more people could die unless aid workers gain access to the two million...

Police in India have issued a sketch of a man whom they want to question in connection with one of the attacks that hit the city of Jaipur this week. A series of explosions killed 63 and left...

The Vietnamese government has decided to donate 200,000 U.S. dollars to victims of a recent earthquake in China's southwestern Sichuan province, local newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Thursday....

BANGKOK -- The price of benchmark Thai rice rebounded to around US$1,000 a ton Wednesday, near a historic high, as a Malaysian 200,000 ton rice purchase signalled strong demand, traders and exporters...

Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani Thursday said Pakistani people would stand by Chinese people at this difficult time of grief after a killer earthquake hit Southwest China. Gilani...

Leopard Capital and Cambodia Investment & Development Fund are among those planning to put more than US$450 million in the second-poorest of 10 Southeast Asian nations. Cambodia Investment is getting...

Brian Rudman: Only right that matters in Myanmar is the right to live The United Nations estimated those affected by the Myanmar cyclone at up to 2.5 million on Wednesday and called an urgent meeting...