A team of four Sherpas yesterday set off to attempt a record winter ascent of Mount Everest in just five days, which would also be the first winter climb of the peak in more than quarter of a century.

Two Wall Street Journal reporters left China yesterday after being expelled over a controversial headline in an op-ed that angered Beijing.

Sri Lanka will deploy troops to help police control worsening traffic congestion in the capital, the army said yesterday.

Schools in Kashmir reopened yesterday after remaining shut for nearly seven months following the abrogation of Article 370. Officials of the Jammu and Kashmir education department said all arrangements had been put in place for the students to attend schools after the institutions remained shut for months since August after scrapping of its special status and due to winter break.

The lockdown of Guo Jing’s neighbourhood in Wuhan -- the city at the heart of China’s new coronavirus epidemic -- came suddenly and without warning.

Malaysia's King has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad but appoints him as interim premier.

US President Donald Trump lands in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Monday at the start of a visit during which the two sides will aim to reset relations that have been buffeted by a trade spat.

Non-residents of Wuhan may leave the quarantined city at the epicentre of China's virus epidemic if they show no symptoms and have never had contact with patients, authorities say.

China's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,442 after the government says 97 more people had died, all but one of them in the epicentre of Hubei province.

Samsung Electronics says that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a shutdown of its entire facility there until Monday morning.

The death toll in China from the new coronavirus outbreak rose by 109, the National Health Commission says, bringing the total number of fatalities to 2,345.

A stridently anti-military Thai party was dissolved Friday and its key members banned from politics for a decade over a $6 million loan by its billionaire founder, a withering blow to the kingdom’s pro-democracy movement.

China could start clinical trials for a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus around late April, an official said yesterday.

China will waive trade-war tariffs on imports of selected US medical equipment from March 2, the government says, as the country battles to contain the new coronavirus epidemic.

The United States' ambassador to Germany says that President Donald Trump threatened to cut off intelligence-sharing with countries that dealt with Chinese tech firm Huawei.

People returning to the Chinese capital Beijing from extended holidays are ordered to undergo a 14-day self-quarantine to help prevent spread of the new coronavirus, as hard-hit Hubei province reports more than 2,400 new cases.

After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered top telecom companies to pay $13 billion in unpaid spectrum and licensing fees by March 17 or face punishment in a fresh blow to ailing mobile carriers.

The death toll from China’s epidemic nears 1,400, according to authorities, with six medical workers among the victims.

The death toll from China's virus epidemic neared 1,400, as the United States complained of a "lack of transparency" from Beijing over its handling of a crisis that has fuelled global panic.