Much is still to be desired from the efforts of local governments to stop the dengue epidemic as the number of cases has risen to nearly 250,000 nationwide with more than 1,000 dead, over a third them children.

Australian government officials advised India to ban Chinese technology maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from supplying parts for a rollout of a high-speed telecommunications network, Australian newspapers report.

Malaysia is looking to diversify into food crops, in the face of fluctuating commodity prices and Western countries' hostility towards palm oil.

A powerful typhoon that battered Tokyo overnight with ferocious winds killed one person, police says, as halted trains caused commuter chaos and more than 100 flights are cancelled.

India’s Union home minister Amit Shah yesterday asserted that the Centre will not touch Article 371 which grants special provisions to

Across a river in a remote part of India’s northeast, labourers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to about seven soccer

A strong typhoon that could bring record winds and rain was poised to make a direct hit on Tokyo later yesterday, as authorities issued

The Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module has been located on the lunar surface and it must have been a hard-landing, ISRO chairman K Sivan

The three-day long Asia Regional Youth Festival 2019 will begin on September 11 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in a bid to empower young people in the region to hold our governments accountable to international human rights commitments.

US President Donald Trump says on he has called off a secret summit with the Taliban and Afghanistan's leader, abruptly slamming the door on a year of diplomacy to end America's longest war.

Riot police fanned out across Hong Kong yesterday and thwarted plans by pro-democracy protesters to target the airport, days after

Pakistan yesterday said it had denied India’s President Ram Nath Kovind permission to fly through its airspace -- access to which is

An express train travelling at around 120 kilometres per hour smashed into a truck at a crossing south of Tokyo yesterday, sparking a

North Korea has told the United Nations to cut the number of international staff it deploys in the country because the world body’s programs have failed “due to the politicization of UN assistance by hostile forces,” according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

A Taliban suicide blast in the centre of Kabul killed at least 10 civilians and two NATO soldiers, destroying cars and shops in an area near the headquarters of Afghanistan's international military force and the US embassy.

Myanmar is holding insurgent suspects incommunicado in a practice that may be covering up torture, UN human rights experts says.

At least four people, including three CISF personnel, were killed after a massive fire broke out in the stormwater drainage at ONGC’s gas

Eight schoolchildren have died and two others were injured in a “school-related criminal case” in central China, with a 40-year-old

Hong Kong’s embattled leader insisted yesterday she had no intention of stepping down after an audio recording emerged of her

Authorities’ attempt to charge an Indian journalist who exposed the poor quality of meals served at a government school triggered