American fast food chains, despite being hugely popular initially, seem to have failed to win over Vietnam, owing to tough competition from local food options and an inability to adapt to local taste buds.

Emerging stocks retreated yesterday, taking their cue from Wall Street losses amid rising US and German bond yields and expectations that the Fed and ECB will soon cut back on stimulus.

The worst drought in five years has pushed 900,000 people in Sri Lanka into “acute food insecurity”, the World Food Programme (WFP) says.

Reach Out to Asia (Rota) recently hosted a ‘Training for Trainers’ workshop, part of its Adult English Literacy (RAEL) programme, at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU).

Iran has received authorisation from world powers to import 130 tonnes of natural uranium, Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said Thursday.

Fading expectations of a US interest rate rise this year hit the dollar and boosted stocks in Asia yesterday, although Shanghai equities took a hammering from weak Chinese manufacturing data.

Tens of thousands of Sufis descended on the Bangladeshi capital yesterday in a defiant show of unity, following a spate of targeted killings of members of the Muslim minority by suspected Islamist militants.

After days of talks brokered by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Janata Parivar yesterday announced that Bihar Chief ...

Qatar yesterday expressed “strong condemnation and denunciation” of the attack by gunmen on Paris weekly...

Indian and Pakistani intelligence agencies both picked up plans for an imminent strike on their Wagah land border ahead of a suicide blast ...

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The NBA is run by smart people, 76ers head coach Brett Brown said. And on Wednesday morning.