JAKARTA: Floods carrying volcanic debris swept through a town in eastern Indonesia yesterday killing four people, including a 9-year-old child, and leaving 10 others missing, a government…

HANOI: Police and security guards beat two journalists from the state radio while they were covering the mass eviction of farmers from land slated for a housing project, the journalists and state…

HANOI: Vietnam has arrested three minority tribesmen in the central Gia Lai province for "anti-state activity", official media said yesterday. The men, from the Ede and Gia Rai…

MANILA: Police say motorcycle-riding gunmen have fatally shot an anchorman for a Catholic Church-run radio station in a southern city. Police say they are investigating the motive behind…

YANGON: Myanmar state media on yesterday said claims of ballot tampering made by Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy during recent landmark by-elections were found to…

SEVENTEEN workers sleeping in a department store, here were killed when a fire swept through the building before dawn yesterday, local authorities said.