Myanmar’s minister for religion on Thursday warned ultranationalist monks to avoid hate speech, in a rare government rebuke to Buddhist hardliners behind bilious anti-Muslim rhetoric.
slamic State lost an area the size of Ireland - a quarter of its territory - to hostile forces in the last 18 months in Iraq and Syria and is likely to further step up attacks on civilians in coming months, IHS said in a report on Sunday.
The son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online.
Nigeria's main militant group in oil rich Niger Delta region, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Sunday said it has set up a peace broker committee to mediate between them and the government.
ThingPark China to support LoRaWAN technology, an open global standard for secure, low-power wide-area network connectivity
One of family members of Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth-largest family-controlled conglomerates, was summoned on Friday by prosecutors for questioning on charges of taking bribes from a local cosmetics company seeking to shelf space in the group's duty-free shops.
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday invited all nationalities residing in the country to establish a genuine federal union, saying it is the sole aim of the new government.
India Monday officially joined the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), more than a year after it had applied for a full membership to the group.
Myanmar military authorities have concluded that the death of an ethnic Kachin resident on Monday night was caused by a "misfire" from a soldier's gun, according to an announcement of the Defense Ministry published Wednesday.
South Korea has strengthened security and guards around U.S. air bases after the country's spy agency reported that the Islamic State (IS) group had included the U.S. facilities in South Korea as its target of terrorist attacks.
The Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks on the West, CIA Director John Brennan told Congress on Thursday, while confirming the Orlando "lone wolf" shooter had no direct links to the extreme group.
A two-pronged advance to capture key urban strongholds of the Islamic State group and its self-styled capital of Raqqa has underlined a quiet convergence of strategy between the US and Russia to defeat the extremists, with Syria's Kurds emerging as the common link.
The Syrian army on Saturday entered the administrative borders of the northern province of al- Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) group, a monitor group reported.
The Philippine security forces will tighten security measures in southern city of Davao to make sure incoming president Rodrigo Duterte's thanksgiving party could be carried out smoothly, a senior official said Thursday.
Four Bangladeshi workers held on suspicion of planning attacks linked to the Islamic State group in their own country were convicted of financing terrorism by a court in Singapore on Tuesday.
Officials from the World Bank Group would be coming to India in June 2016 for the purpose of data collection for its - Doing Business 2017 annual report which is scheduled to come out in October later this year.
Groups of residents from remote mountainous areas in Japan and Taiwan planned to work together on projects to lure tourists by promoting local ghost stories, those involved on the Japanese side said.
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