Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, was sworn-in as president of Pakistan. Zardari is the country's 14th president and succeeds the former army general Pervez Musharraf, who vacated his post upon receiving threat of impeachment the previous month.
 
A grand swearing-in ceremony ...

A moderate quake of 5.6-magnitude rattled Sumatra Island in Indonesia on the morning of Tuesday, September 9, 2008. Geologists said that there was no report of immediate damage. As per the Indonesian meteorology and geophysics agency, the earthquake took place at around 10:07 am, about 31 miles to ...

The coming week will see Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari visiting China to negotiate a nuclear deal like the one being worked out between US and India, an official has revealed. On conditions of anonymity, the official added that Pakistan has already apprised China of its plans about ...

The Tibetan community around the world went into mourning upon hearing the news of the death of Dalai Lama's eldest brother, Taktser Rinpoche in United States on Saturday, September 6, 2008. Taktser Rinpoche, who served as mediator between the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and Chinese officials ...

Owing to lack of popular support the Japanese Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation in a news conference in Tokyo, on September 01, 2008. The Prime Minister said that he took such a step keeping in mind the betterment of Japan’s politics as he feels that his stay as the Prime ...

The Maoists, demanding a 10 per cent bonus, have indefinitely shut down the plant of the Dabur Company in Nepal's Terai region. It was only recently that they had also stopped the yearly beauty pageant that the subsidiary of the Indian ayurvedic giant in Nepal sponsored.
 
This incident is ...

Soon after Anwar Ibrahim rejoined the Malaysian parliament on Thursday, August 28 after a decade long absence, he came at blows with the government he vows to oust, leading a walkout of the opposition.
 
Anwar Ibrahim once happened to be the protégé of the ex-Prime Minister ...

The southern part of Russia's Lake Baikal area on Wednesday, August 27, got a severe jolt from an earthquake, reported the news agencies of Russia. So far no report of any casualty though has reached. As per the Irkutsk seismic station, the quake measured 6.7 on the Richter scale and took place at ...

A Philippine air force C-130 transport plane is reported to have gone missing in the south of the country on Monday, August 25. Air force chief Lt. Gen. Pedrito Cadungog stated the next day it had two pilots and seven crew members onboard and that the plane had probably crashed.
 
He ...

The Zhongba county located in western China's Tibet region witnessed strong quake tremors late on Monday, informed the country's Earthquake Networks Centre. It is reported that the quake took place at 9.22 pm and that it was so strong that even Gerze and Coqen counties in the region felt the sharp ...

In a passenger plane crash in Kyrgyzstan out of 90 persons onboard, 68 persons have been killed. The plane was bound for Iran crashed shortly after takeoff from the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek on Sunday. Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor Chudinov said that the plane suffered a dramatic loss of cabin ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced on Friday, August 22, that the Presidential election in Pakistan will be held on September 6. ECP Secretary Kanwar Dilshad informed that from August 26 onwards the nomination papers will be received.
 
The ECP Secretary was further quoted ...

In one of the most atrocious terror attacks on Pakistan, suicide bombers killed 67 people at its biggest arms factory at Wah on Thursday, August 21. This came as a severe jolt to Pakistan, which is already staggering from the political turmoil that is threatening to bring down the ruling ...

According to a report by the Indonesian Meteorology Agency, few quakes with a moderate magnitude of 5.4 have hit the easternmost part of Indonesia on August 19.
 
An official reported that the tremor occurred at 11.34 a.m. with its epicenter 12km southeast of Nabire town in Papua province ...

A strong earthquake has rattled eastern Indonesia. The quake has been measured at 6.6 on the Richter scale. An official report issued from the Jakarta Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reveals that the quake came at 5.41 in the morning, and its epicenter was about 51 km northeast of Sumbawa Island. ...

South Africa has assured its full support to India on issues it deems important during the impending meetings of the IAEA Board of Governors and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). South African President Thabo Mbeki voiced his support to Anand Sharma, Minister of State for External Affairs, when the ...

Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister of Israel, declared on Wednesday, July 30 that he will resign in September. Since his decision can freeze the delicate peace talks with Syria and Palestinian, it sparked off a political upheaval in the country. In a formal statement issued from his residence in ...

Devised to contain illegal migration, a new visa regime was introduced in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday, July 29. As many as 16 varied categories of visas and health insurance have been made mandatory under this new system for all visa types. The new visa regime in UAE will permit ...

A strong earthquake of 6.8-magnitude jolted Northern Japan after midnight of Wednesday, in which around 109 people got injured. The government dispatched a tem of experts on Thursday, July 24 to study the damages caused by the earthquake. Police informed that 15 people who got injured in the quake ...

Ram Baran Yadav of the Nepali Congress has been elected as the first president of Nepal, the new Himalayan republic. Ram Baran Yadav defeated Ram Raja Prasad Singh, the candidate of Maoist party. With the election of Mr Ram Baran Yadav, the long standoff over the presidential election between the ...

The Myanmar government has hinted that in six months’ time the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be set free from house arrest because the prevalent laws permit maximum detention for a period of six years. 

George Yeo, the Foreign Minister of Singapore said that Nyan Win, his ...

Russia is going to sign a key agreement with its communist neighbour China for handing over the control of the two disputed islands the coming week. For this Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, will fly down to China on July 21- July 22 to sign the necessary documents and let go the ...

The war of words does not seem to stop after the ghastly bomb blast at the Indian embassy in Kabul. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has directly blamed Pakistani intelligence agency ISI for carrying out the bomb blast stealthily. Pointing towards ISI, Karzai said that it is clear that who ...

A Philippine passenger ferry having onboard around 700 passengers and 121 crew members capsized on Sunday, June 22, 2008 because of a typhoon, setting off an extensive search for survivors. The ferry was on its way to Cebu from Manila and the vessel's owner Sulpicio Lines informed they had lost ...

The members of the Taleban on Friday, June 13, 2008, very audaciously attacked the main prison of Kandahar ‘Sarposa’ located the south of Afghanistan killing 15 guards and freeing around 1,200 prisoners. Among those who escaped from the prisons included around 350 Taleban members such ...

Japan’s north-east coast was hit by a potent earthquake of 7.2 magnitude on Saturday, June 14, 2008, due to which at least 40 people are reported to have got injured. Japan's meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert, but it was removed after just two small waves a couple of centimeters ...

 
China and Taiwan have agreed upon for regular flights from each other’s lands. This landmark deal is a great breakthrough for both the nations as they have strain relationship since 1949. These regular flights would be weekend charter; nevertheless a big step towards bringing ...

Kim Jong-hoon, the Trade Minister of South Korea, said on Thursday June 12 that he will soon be leaving for the US to revise a beef deal that has resulted in mass street demonstrations in Seoul as well a sharp decline in the support for the newly elected President, Lee Myung-bak. Not only have ...

At the international conference being held at Paris on Thursday June 12, 2008, the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai will seek $50 billion in aid for reconstructing his country that is devastated by war spanning three decades. This conference will see participation of around 85 countries and ...

An Afghan journalist, Abdul Samad Rohani, working for the BBC was found shot dead on Sunday afternoon and has been buried yesterday. Rohani, a native Afghan and a BBC regional reporter had been working in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province. He was abducted on Saturday and found murdered ...