Hong Kongers looking to settle in Britain, many of them motivated by worries over the city's future, rushed to download a smartphone app to apply for the country's new British National Overseas (BNO) visa scheme after the Home Office made the process...

NEW YORK: US aviation regulators on Tuesday ordered inspections of all Pratt & Whitney engines similar to the one that broke up on a Boeing 777 passenger plane over Denver at the weekend, directing the tests be carried out before any return to servic...

BEIJING: China has dramatically increased its prosecution of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang through the formal court system, handing out long prison terms for dubious charges such as "picking quarrels" and giving gifts to overseas relatives, a rights ...

BEIJING: A Chinese man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife almost a quarter of a million baht for years of unpaid housework, in a landmark divorce case that has sparked furious debate in China.

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: The driver of a van was killed and four student passengers on their way to school hurt when he lost control of the vehicle and it hit a roadside power pole in Muang district on Wednesday morning.

Twelve outstanding people have been named national artists for the year 2020, Culture Minister Ittipol Khunpluem announced on Wednesday.

Myanmar's foreign minister visited Thailand on Wednesday, a government source said, in the first visit abroad by a senior Myanmar official since the military seized power in a coup early this month.

The cabinet has approved in principle two bills that will allow the state to monitor the financing of non-government organisations and regulate their activities.

SEOUL: A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world's most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught only after apparently falling asleep.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A 62-year-old woman died as fire swept through her shop, stocked with flammable construction materials, in Hua Sai district in the early hours of Wednesday.