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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea: Pope Francis on Saturday (Sep 7) called for better treatment of workers in Papua New...

A basketball court, an old police station - why are these unlikely destinations becoming the latest hotspots for mainland China...

HANOI: Typhoon Yagi, Asia's most powerful storm this year, was downgraded to a tropical depression on Sunday (Sep 8), after wreaking...

A suspect has been arrested along with the former principal of R G Kar Medical College where the victim was...

CLERICAL ABUSE CASES While Timor-Leste is devoutly Catholic, it is also one of the world's poorest countries, heavily reliant on...

"PEACE AND FREEDOM" Timor-Leste has a complex history marked by centuries-long Portuguese rule, decades of occupation by neighbouring Indonesia, and...

SINGAPORE: A senior Malaysian politician under police investigation for urging the government not to roll out proposed mandatory halal food...

Managers and workers at industrial parks and factories in Haiphong, a coastal city of two million, said on Monday they...

Pope Francis said that inter-religious ties must be "strengthened" to fight extremism and intolerance.  Interfaith dialogue is "indispensable to confront...

MANILA: A fugitive former mayor in the Philippines accused of links to Chinese criminal syndicates has been arrested in Indonesia,...