6 Chinese feared dead when tour bus crashes in New Zealand A bus carrying a group of Chinese tourists crashed Wednesday near a popular New Zealand tourist town. Chinese officials say they’ve been told six tourists were killed, although police have yet to co...

More Vietnamese fear relatives are among 39 dead in truck More Vietnamese families came forward Saturday with information their relatives may be among the 39 people found dead in the back of a container truck in southeastern England....

Eighteen dead, 24 injured in Cambodia building collapse Eighteen people were killed when an under-construction building in Cambodia collapsed early on Saturday, an official said, as rescuers struggled to reach missing workers feared trapped under a mountai...

Seven dead, dozens trapped in Cambodia building collapse Seven people were killed when an under-construction building in Cambodia collapsed early on Saturday, an official said, as rescuers struggled to reach dozens of missing workers feared trapped under a ...

THT 10 years ago: Over 80 feared dead in Rapti, Babai deluge Death toll in the floods caused by Rapti and Babai rivers following three days of incessant rains is likely to cross 80 with eight bodies found so far and more than 70 persons missing....

Dozens feared dead after landslide in a Myanmar Dozens of people were feared dead in Myanmar after a landslide hit a jade mining region, workers at a local mining firm said...

Thailand indicts 2 for deadly Bangkok bombing A military court in Thailand on Tuesday indicted two men police say carried out a deadly August bombing at a central Bangkok shrine that left 20 people dead and more than 120 injured....

100,000 feared dead in Haiti quake PORT-AU-PRINCE: More than 100,000 people were feared dead Wednesday after a cataclysmic earthquake struck Haiti, filling the streets with corpses and burying thousands under razed...

Petrol bombs and tear gas scar Hong Kong streets as police, protesters clash Protesters threw petrol bombs at the Tsim Sha Tsui police station on Kowloon peninsula after police inside fired volleys of tear gas to disperse demonstrators on the street....

Mental health issues in Hong Kong surging amid tumultuous protests, experts say Stress and trauma over the political turmoil surrounding Hong Kong’s extradition bill have created an unprecedented mental health problem that the city is not equipped to deal with, medical professi...

South Korea says North Korea’s latest launches were missiles The US and South Korea have determined that two projectiles launched by North Korea were short-range missiles, a South Korean military official said Friday, a day after the North’s second launch in ...

Iran inches away from nuclear deal amid US sanctions Iran’s president said Wednesday that it will stop exporting excess uranium and heavy water from its nuclear program as stipulated by the 2015 atomic accord and set a 60-day deadline for new terms to...

Super typhoon slams into China after pummelling Philippines A super typhoon made landfall in China's Guangdong on Sunday, the country's most populous province, after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and Macau and killing potentially more than 50 people in the Phili...

At US-China summit, Trump presses Xi on trade, NKorea; progress cited US President Donald Trump pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping to do more to curb North Korea’s nuclear programme and help reduce the gaping US trade deficit with Beijing in talks on Friday, even as...

‘No survivors’ after plane crash in northern Pakistan mountains There were no survivors after a plane carrying 47 people crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, the airline's chairman said, as recovery operations continued late into the night at...