An elderly South Korean man died yesterday after setting himself on fire outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a bitter diplomatic dispute over wartime forced labour compensation took a fatal turn.

China’s Tiangong-2 space lab successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere yesterday under controlled conditions, completing the latest round of experiments in Beijing’s ambitious space programme.

A huge explosion rocks a gas plant in central China, killing at least two people and injuring another 18, state media has said.

A man suspected of torching an animation studio in western Japan shouted that he had been plagiarised and appeared to have planned the attack, media says after a blaze that killed 33 people in Japan's worst mass killing in two decades.

The government is attempting to build a framework to enable elderly people and others to use low-speed electric vehicles to go shopping, to the hospital and elsewhere.

Southeast Asia’s drug gangs are making over $60 billion a year pumping out record amounts of methamphetamine, then laundering the profits through the region’s mushrooming number of casinos, a UN study showed yesterday.

Twelve people are killed and more than 80 wounded when Taliban fighters detonated two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in the Afghan city of Kandahar, police and medical officials and the Taliban said.

In a significant legal and diplomatic victory for India, the International Court of Justice rules that Pakistan must review the death sentence for a former Indian navy officer who has been handed the punishment by a Pakistani military court for alleged espionage and terrorism.

The moratorium on migrant workers from Bangladesh is expected to be lifted next month the soonest, says Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared he will never be tried by an international court for mass killings in his war on drugs, and vowed no let-up in a crackdown that he said he was winning and would see through “to the very end”.

Heavy monsoon rains across South Asia claim more lives, with the death toll passing 200 as authorities tried to reach stranded villagers cut off by surging floodwaters.

Hundreds of people demonstrates in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, in support of proposed constitutional amendments that would reduce the power of the military.

Credit cards belonging to Malaysia’s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak were used to spend over $800,000 in one day at a luxury jeweller

North Korea yesterday said looming US-South Korea military drills could impact the proposed resumption of nuclear talks between

From today, prospective employers in South Korea cannot ask job seekers for information unrelated to the positions they are being hired

Survivors scrambled for higher ground as torrential monsoon rains swept away homes and triggered landslides across South Asia

Fifty years to the day since mankind launched the first mission to set foot on it, the Moon is set to treat Earthlings to a partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday.

A Canadiancitizen detained in China is being held on drug-related offences, Beijing said yesterday, at a time of tense relations between

Anti-government protesters who fought police inside a Hong Kong shopping mall were “rioters”, the finance hub’s pro-Beijing leader

China’s government and Chinese companies will cut business ties with US firms selling arms to Taiwan, China’s Foreign Ministry said