Myanmar's government is denying entry to helicopters and relief supplies from U.S. Navy ships waiting offshore, near the Irawaddy...

Faced with the threat of losing future earnings in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Australia's contingent from the Rajasthan Royals franchise were coaxed back to Jaipur despite their fears following Tuesday's deadly terrorist attack in the capital city of...

Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has confirmed he would be available for the second Test in the West Indies after spending time with his fiancee Lara Bingle who lost her...

Cricket Australia (CA) is contemplating its own version of Indian Premier League (IPL) within two years after the inaugural Twenty20 tournament has become a mega-hit in the...

Islamabad, May 17 : After the PML-N walked out of the ruling coalition government, political circles in Islamabad are abuzz with possibility of a new alignment between the PPP and the erstwhile ruling party the PML-Q, to cobble up 2/3 majority for the PPP-led government in the National...

Kuala Lumpur, May 17 : Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar has said that the Government had not revoked HINDRAF chairman P. Waythamoorthy's passport, and that he was still in possession of his passport in...

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority today dispatched a C-130 flight containing relief goods for the quake-affected people of China....

Islamabad, May 16 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his party boss Asif Ali Zardari today visited ISI headquarters where they were reportedly briefed about security issues the country was...

Lahore, May 16 : Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif had a sigh of relief last evening when the country's Election Commission accepted their nomination papers for the June 18 by-polls. Interestingly, the same Election Commission had rejected the duo's nomination papers ahead of the February 18 general elections, saying that they were involved in different...

At least ten people, most of them policemen, were killed and over 90 injured when a suicide bomber rammed into a police van in the busy heart of the Sri Lankan capital at midday on...

Incoming International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat said that the sanctity of Test cricket would remain, despite the frenzied grab for Twenty20 dollars, it was reported by the media here...

YANGON: Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching cyclone-battered regions where ...

A diplomatic mission, organized by the Myanmar government, has been taken to some disaster-hit areas in the country Saturday by helicopters to look into the status of the areas after disaster,...

MUHARRAQ Cricket Club beat Sri Lanka Club by two wickets in the BCA Twenty20 Cricket Tournament at Bahrain Cricket Association (BCA) Ground 4. Mohammed Naeem hit seven sixes and four boundaries in...

May 17, 2008, 08:30 Torrential rain lashed survivors of Cyclone Nargis yesterday as Myanmar's junta raised its toll sharply to more than 133,000 people dead or missing, putting the disaster on a par...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The official death toll nearly doubled to 78,000 from Myanmar's killer cyclone as heavy rains on Friday lashed much of the area stricken two weeks ago, further ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The French ambassador to the United Nations says unless Myanmar allows aid to be delivered to cyclone survivors, it "could lead to a true crime against humanity" with hundreds...

Islamabad - Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, abducted around three months ago in the country's restive tribal region, has been released, media reports said Saturday. Tariq Azizuddin was handed...

Farmers in Bogalay, one of the hardest-hit townships in Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta region, were putting the already harvested paddy along the roadside and exposing them under the sun, in...

Pakistan Secretary of Guardian Council met with Pakistani Ulema and religious dignitaries at Iranian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday evening. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati addressed the meting in...

Relief camps cannot accommodate cyclone victims in Bogalay, one of the hardest-hit townships in Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta region, according to one of the leading local news journals...

Singapore - A new Singapore-based satellite television firm plans to beam shows to 220 million viewers in China and South-East Asia when it goes live next quarter. NL Yellow River Satellite TV, a...

France's ambassador to the United Nations, Jean-Maurice Ripert, warned that the tragedy in Burma was turning slowly to a real risk of crimes against humanity. He said the situation was unacceptable...

The Burmese military Government has declared the emergency relief effort over, despite many survivors of Cyclone Nargis still being without food, water and shelter. Two weeks after the deadly...

COLOMBO: A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber crashed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital yesterday, killing 10 people, the military and hospital authorities said. Doctors at...

Tariq Azizuddin disappeared along Feb. 11 along with his driver and bodyguard as they drove from the Pakistani city of Peshawar toward the Afghan...

JAIPUR: Police probing bombings in western India that killed 63 people said yesterday that new evidence pointed increasingly towards a Bangladeshi militant group as being behind the blasts. Eight...

The EU's humanitarian aid commissioner has wrung some concessions from Myanmar's military leaders, raising hopes they will make relief efforts easier after a cyclone two weeks ago.Louis Michel said...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban militants have released Pakistan's envoy to Afghanistan, more than three months after he was kidnapped in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, a senior government...

YANGON (Reuters) - With state TV only showing footage of generals handing out food at model tented villages, people in Myanmar are snapping up bootleg video discs of bloated corpses, desperate...

YANGON -- Myanmar took a group of foreign diplomats early Saturday to the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta, in the first such trip since the devastating storm hit the country two weeks ago, a Western...

YANGON -- Myanmar said Friday that more than 133,000 people were dead or missing in the cyclone disaster, nearly doubling the toll from the worst disaster in the country's history, which hit two...

off the Burmese coast and has this report. Crews aboard the U.S.S. and three other U.S. Navy ships have been waiting in international waters in the Andaman Sea, roughly 100 kilometers from the...

Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, who was abducted by suspected Taleban militants in February, has been freed. Tariq Azizuddin was seized in the border area between the two countries, en route...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 21:00 CDT By Charoen Kittikanya, Bangkok Post, Thailand May 16--Helped by surging revenue in the first quarter, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, the country's largest...

Manila - German construction equipment manufacturer Wacker Neuson has opened a factory just outside the Philippine capital, a government statement said Saturday. The Department of Foreign Affairs...

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes will fly into Myanmar on Sunday. UN aid officials say there has been some slow progress in getting relief supplies and humanitarian...

Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party has rejected the Burma junta's claim that more than 92 per cent of voters approved a military-backed constitution in the first round of a referendum last week. ...

The Burma government's refusal to allow external aid to be delivered to people in need or in danger after Cyclone Nargis "could lead to a true crime against humanity", a leading diplomat has...

Last Updated: May 12. 2008 11:54PM UAE / May 12. 2008 7:54PM GMT Nawaz Sharif has announced that his party is withdrawing from the federal cabinet but will not join the parliamentary opposition.Mr...

MAE SOT, Thailand — As soon as you cross the Thai-Myanmar friendship bridge, you have to shift perspective. From driving on the left-hand side in Thailand, you suddenly veer to the right. The...

-(Dow Jones)- The State Bank of Vietnam, or the country's central bank, said Saturday that it has agreed to allow Vietnam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank to sell 25% stakes to four...

NEW: Junta says almost 56,000 missing from storm U.N. official traveling to Myanmar to seek more freedom for aid workers Myanmar's junta says it will provide tour of hard-hit Irrawaddy delta Up to...

Ernie Barbosa, a sergeant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, sat in the moonlight before a replica of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial -- 58,256 names etched in white that from a distance...

Shipments distributed by non-governmental organizations, U.S. official said Myanmar's ruling military junta is reluctant to allow outsiders in to distribute aid The United States continues to push...

Two major natural disasters have hit Myanmar and China in as many weeks. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses the two crises, and diplomatic efforts to get the Myanmar government to quicken...

US lawmakers today asked President George W Bush to consider 'humanitarian intervention' in cyclone-hit Burma after its military rulers refused to allow foreign experts to direct relief efforts...

Paul Strachan, who runs the Pandaw River Cruise Company in the cyclone-hit country, is refitting two 180ft boats as medical aid vessels and loaning them to two charities, Save The Children and...

The Chinese Thomas Cup squad, which are looking to retain the trophy for the seventh time, beat Malaysia 3-2 in the badminton semifinal showdown Friday and advanced to the final at the bung Karno...

FROM potential finalists, Malaysia are now embarrassingly close to not even playing in the 17th Azlan Shah Cup playoffs in Ipoh tomorrow. The script has been the same as the Japan Olympics Qualifier...