Malaysian police said Saturday the gunmen who shot dead a tourist from Taiwan and kidnapped his wife on Pom Pom Island, Semporna, on Friday had links to a terrorist group.
Tourist arrivals in 2013 will exceed 1.5 million, an increase of nearly 9 percent over last year, Maltese Tourism Minister Karmenu Vella said in a press conference themed on the Budget 2014 on Thursday.
The Spanish government has to continue with reforms in order to consolidate the country's economic recovery, the Secretary of State for Economy Fernando Jimenez Latorre said on Monday.
Pakistani Taliban's decision to appoint most hard-liner commander Mullah Fazalullah as their new chief is seen as a serious setback for the proposed peace talks with the government.
Recent Mekong River flash floods have entirely damaged 113,260 hectares of rice paddies, or 4.4 percent of the total rice-planted area of 2.56 million hectares, according to an agricultural report Tuesday.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Saturday that former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, cannot leave the country as his name is included in the list of those who are barred from going abroad.
Two New Zealand companies have lost "significant sums of money" after two Chinese companies fell victim to Internet hackers, New Zealand Police said Monday.
For Chen Zhiting and Zhang Yide, old miners who used to live in shanty housing near a half-abandoned coal mine, this year's National Day holiday marks a comfortable beginning of their retired lives.
A total of 74 people have been confirmed missing after three fishing boats have sunk since Sunday afternoon in a typhoon in South China Sea, maritime authorities said on Monday.
A man in Hangzhou City in east China's Zhejiang Province texted police to donate his body and organs to science before committing suicide, it was announced Wednesday.
New Zealand troops who served in the Vietnam War and have double the rate of chronic lymphatic leukemia compared with the general population, according to medical research out Monday.
The most senior public servant in New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), the government agency responsible for food safety and agricultural produce, will go to China to try to mitigate the damage from the Fonterra botulism scare.
Pakistani government Sunday denied media reports that talks with the Taliban have started.
ASEAN environment senior officials agreed to propose to the ASEAN environment ministers to support the recommendation of the 15th Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution regarding the Haze Monitoring System, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) said Thursday.
The infant formula manufacturer at the center of the botulism false alarm in New Zealand said it has been confirmed that Karicare infant formula products that were affected by the Fonterra ingredient contamination are safe and now back on New Zealand shelves.
A Pakistani judicial official on Thursday overturned the 33-year imprisonment sentence awarded to Shakeel Afridi, the man who helped the American CIA track down Al- Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, local media reported.
Police in north China's Shanxi Province are on a manhunt for a woman who gouged out the eyes of a six-year-old boy.
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