CHIBA, Japan: Low-cost carrier Zipair Tokyo Inc said on Friday it will launch a flight service next month linking Narita airport with Los Angeles, becoming the first budget airline to offer long-haul flights between Asia and North America.

MANILA: People coming to work in offices in the Philippines will have to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or get tested frequently, the president's office said on Friday, as the country battles one of Asia's worst outbreaks.

NEW DELHI: China has become India’s biggest security threat and the tens of thousands of troops and weaponry that New Delhi rushed to secure its disputed Himalayan border last year will not be able to return to base for a long time, defence chief G...

Covid patients in Singapore who choose not to get vaccinated could face high medical bills, as one of the most immunized societies in the world ramps up the pressure to get more shots in arms.

CHIANG MAI: Seventy suspects were arrested and more than 700,000 methamphetamine pills and guns and ammunition seized during five days of drug raids in the North, police said on Friday.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday jailed American journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years, his lawyer and his employer said.

HARGEISA, Somalia: Tiny, weeks-old cheetah cubs suckled from baby bottles and purred weakly, their condition still dangerously precarious after their rescue from the Horn of Africa's illegal wildlife trade.

Malaysia’s economy returned to contraction in the third quarter, the first Southeast Asian economy to report a renewed slump, but the central bank said it expects growth to rebound fast as virus curbs are eased.

SONGKHLA: Twenty-four Myanmar nationals were arrested in Chana district for entering the country illegally from Malaysia on Thursday evening, and another four on Friday morning in Sadao district.

The shopping centre operating unit of West Japan Railway Co, known as JR West, has concluded a comprehensive partnership agreement with the Mall Group calling for the referral of potential Japanese tenants to commercial facilities run by the Bangkok-...