Thailand finished as Group B runners-up after losing to five-time world champions Brazil 9-1 in the Fifa Futsal World Cup in Uzbekistan on Friday night.

MOSCOW - Russia and China started naval exercises in the Sea of Japan on Saturday, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Pacific Fleet as saying.

TAIPEI - A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s sparsely populated east coast county of Hualien on Saturday, the island’s weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.

BEIRUT - At least 37 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday, including three children and seven women along with 16 Hezbollah fighters, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday.

Port got off to an impressive start in their AFC Champions League Two campaign by defeating Indonesia's Persib Bandung 1-0 in their Group F encounter at Si Jalak Harupat Stadium on Thursday night.

Unseeded Tamara Zidansek of Slovenia booked her berth in the semi-finals of the US$267,082 WTA Allied Thailand Open at Arena Hua Hin on Friday.

A total of 1.4 million baht was handed out by ONE chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong on Friday night, with Chartpayak Saksatoon, Teeyai Wankhongohm MBK, Lamnamkhong BS Muaythai, and Petninmungkorn DrRatNamkangIceland picking up 350,000 baht...

BEIJING - China and Japan reached a consensus in August on the discharge of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

TAIPEI - Taiwan's constitutional court ruled on Friday that the death penalty is constitutional but only for the most serious crimes with the most rigorous legal scrutiny, after considering a petition brought by 37 people who are on death r...

BEIJING - Malaysia will work with China to keep peace in the South China Sea, Malaysia's king told Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, according to mainland state media on Friday.