BEIJING, May 12 - Chinese emperors once prayed for bumper crops under the blue-tiled, triple-eaved roof of Beijing's Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, in sacred rites affirming their mandate to rule.
KATHMANDU, May 12 - A Nepali Sherpa guide fell into a crevasse and died on Mount Everest for the third death in two weeks on the world’s highest mountain, as climbers are undeterred by travel disruptions from the Middle East conflict, officials said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, May 12 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Cuba was asking for help and \"we are going to talk,\" without providing any more detail.
Police are still determining the motive for the murder of the victim, 27, who worked in Singapore.
COPENHAGEN, May 12 - Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday expressed his thanks to the U.S. for its help in strengthening the island's defences and said Taipei would not give in to pressure, ahead of a summit between the U.S. and Chinese leaders in Beijing this week.
The US Justice Department has reportedly subpoenaed The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets at the urging of President Donald Trump, who has complained incessantly about coverage of his Iran war. The Journal reported Monday that it received grand jury subpoenas dated
On a visit to Indonesia, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan also thanked the search and rescue personnel who retrieved the bodies of victims, including two Singaporeans, who died on Mount Dukono on May 8.
TRIPOLI, May 12 - Authorities in eastern Libya say they have found and deported 120 migrants who were being held captive by people traffickers south of Benghazi, and have recovered the bodies of three other migrants from the Mediterranean shore.
Vietnam’s interest in acquiring India’s BrahMos missile has the potential to transform a routine arms deal into a high-stakes procurement impacting power, deterrence and strategic influence across the Indo-Pacific. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Vietnam is
NEW DELHI, May 12 - Dozens of members of the student wing of India's opposition Congress party protested in New Delhi on Tuesday against the cancellation of a key undergraduate college entrance test after authorities discovered its questions had been leaked.
The new law increases the period of service to two years.
NEW DELHI, May 12 - A powerful Hindu group from which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party emerged said on Tuesday it had organised foreign visits, including to the U.S., to counter perceptions it is a paramilitary outfit involved in attacks on minority communities.
GENEVA, May 12 - Antigua and Barbuda has nominated Ecuador's Maria Fernanda Espinosa as candidate to be the next United Nations Secretary-General, a U.N. official told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Budget’s housing package was a centrepiece with a well-flagged crackdown on tax concession.
While overall expectations are low, the summit allows both sides to air pressing concerns in the bilateral relationship.
Possible measures include reducing the 60-day visa-free stay for tourists to 30 days.
The appeals courts on May 12 ruled that the original term of seven years was too lenient.
In April 2026, Gwadar Port processed around 11,000 standard shipping containers. For context, the same port handled roughly 8,300 containers throughout 2025. This is not a record broken by a whisker. It is a record shattered and behind it lies a story about geography, patience
Police arrested 321 foreigners, mainly from Vietnam, in last week's raid.
The Yindjibarndi people had sought A$1.8bn compensation for cultural damage and economic loss.
MANILA, May 12 - Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has again been impeached by the lower house, a little over a year after an earlier impeachment against her was voided on constitutional grounds.
BEIJING, May 12 - China on Tuesday ramped up its rhetoric against Paraguay President Santiago Pena's trip last week to Taiwan, saying he and his colleagues were \"pawns to separatist forces\" and had \"ulterior motives\" for sticking with Taipei.
South Korea's appeals court extended former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min's penalty to nine years in prison on charges including carrying out key insurrection-related duties, perjury and abuse of power.
None of them have shown hantavirus symptoms.
MANILA, May 12 - The top enforcer of former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on drugs urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday to not hand him over to the International Criminal Court, but said he was ready to face justice at home.
Senator Ronald dela Rosa has been under the protective custody of the Senate since May 11.
He is believed to have died after falling.
A Nepali Sherpa guide died after slipping on the snow and falling into a crevasse near Camp III.
The senator is a co-accused in cases that former president Rodrigo Duterte faces in The Hague.
They are usually found from mid-May to early June, but have been spotted as early as late April in 2026.
There are a multitude of reasons why the London Metal Exchange should approve China’s Tsingshan Holding Group’s request to register aluminum produced in Indonesia. Not because markets owe Jakarta a favor, nor because China’s industrial champions deserve another victory lap, but
SYDNEY, May 12 - An Australian court on Tuesday ordered miner Fortescue to pay A$150 million ($108 million) in compensation to an Indigenous group for a cultural loss caused by iron ore mining on their land without their permission.
Two Malaysian men and a woman are assisting with the probe into the shooting of a 27-year-old man outside an entertainment centre in Skudai on May 9.
Jakarta has been on alert as cases of the rodent-borne disease surface in Asia.
North Korea’s capital is experiencing a surge in passenger cars, creating traffic jams for the first time.
It scares wild animals away by emitting different sounds, along with shining a bright LED light.
There are calls to investigate the 16 March airstrike - which the UN says likely killed more - as a war crime.
Dozens more were wounded in the bombing attack at the crowded Naurang Bazar market.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, May 12 - Seven people, including two police officers and five civilians, were killed and dozens wounded in a blast at a market in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, a senior police officer said, the second deadly attack in the region in four days.
It also said the cooperative arrangement for the Malacca and Singapore straits can be a positive model for others.
Indonesia’s Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said on Monday (May 11) that no agreement has been reached on the hub’s location but it hopes to partner with Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines to advance the proposal.
China has learnt that playing to the US president’s ego may not be worth the extra effort.
Any rapport between the leaders may do little to diminish the tech competition.
The Norwegian government refused to approve the export licence just days before shipment.
Himanta Biswa Sarma is seen as one of the architects of BJP's rapid growth in India's northeast.
Calbee is one of many in Japan's corporate landscape suffering from the impact of the Iran war.
Meetings between Chinese and American leaders are not exactly routine, but few are historically groundbreaking. The exceptions include the very first visit by a sitting US president to China, when Richard Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972 – at a
The latest warning from Washington that China could face visa restrictions over deportation cooperation points to a broader pattern: migration policy is increasingly being pulled into the orbit of geopolitical rivalry. While US officials frame the issue as a matter of