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A meeting of Nepal’s ruling Communist Party to decide the political future of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli was postponed until Wednesday, a day after the Chinese ambassador met a senior leader...

A Chinese company on Monday signed a $1.5 billion agreement with Pakistan to set up a hydropower project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. ...

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi held a telephonic conversation on Sunday during which they agreed on disengagement of troops along the Line of Actual Control ...

Books by prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy figures have become unavailable in the Chinese-ruled ciy’s public libraries as they are being reviewed to see whether they violate a new national secur...

China has opened a new territorial dispute, this time with Bhutan by staking claim to tracts in eastern Bhutan that include the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary adjoining Arunachal Pradesh. Bhutan had prot...

The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists...

A total of 8 lakh Indians could be forced to leave Kuwait as its National Assembly committee has approved a draft expat quota bill seeking to reduce the number of foreign workers in the Gulf country. ...

Inside a former firehouse in Richmond, Virginia, a lone actor performs The Picture of Dorian Gray for audiences as small as two. In a Denver parking lot, theatregoers in cars watch, through their wind...

American rapper Kanye West, a vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump, announced on Saturday that he would run for President in 2020 in an apparent challenge to Trump and his presumptive Democrat...

Farrokh Bulsara, the Parsi boy who found world fame as Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the Queen, may be gone but he has certainly not been forgotten. Not only does his music live on but now Royal Ma...