The Philippines is withdrawing top diplomats from Canada after Ottawa missed a deadline to take back 69 shipping containers full of trash, the latest move in a long-running row stoked by threats from Manila's outspoken president.

Emerging jobs related to the digital economy have been and are expected to continue growing quickly in China as digital technology is applied in more fields, says a senior executive from LinkedIn.

Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka’s west coast in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources tell Reuters.

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a Saudi-educated scholar for what they claim are links with Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday bombings, throwing a spotlight on the rising influence of Salafi-Wahhabi Islam on the island's Muslims.

More than 100 inmates escape from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island, police say, in the latest breakout to hit the country's creaking prison system.

Facebook is suing South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave to make sure it isn't breaking the leading social network's rules, the US company says.

China and the United States have agreed to hold more trade talks in Beijing, Vice Premier Liu He says, as US President Donald Trump ordered his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China.

All 33 passengers and crew members are injured more or less as an aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines skidded off the runway of Yangon International Airport in Myanmar.

A car ploughed into a group of kindergarten children in western Japan's Shiga region, killing two toddlers and injuring others, police say.

A suicide blast at one of Pakistan's oldest and most popular Sufi shrines killed at least 10 people and wounded 24 in the eastern city of Lahore, police say, in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.

As the six-week bail period handed to ousted Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif for medical treatment expires, the PML-N has decided to organise a procession to accompany him as he returns to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday said a panel of its judges had dismissed a complaint of sexual harassment made against Chief Justice

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has paid tribute to Tipu Sultan, praising the 18th century ruler of Mysore for preferring to die for

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be shown exit door as his five-year rule has been “most traumatic and devastating” for India’s

Sri Lanka's $4.4 billion tourism industry is reeling from cancellations as travellers shun the sun and sand Indian Ocean island after multiple suicide bombings that killed over 250 people two weeks ago.

Crowds of Thai people line roads under Bangkok's blazing sun for the royal procession of newly crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn, hoping to get a glimpse of the constitutional monarch who is revered in Thai culture as a living deity.

Sri Lanka's Catholic Church will televise a private Sunday mass after cancelling regular services over fears of a repeat of Easter's suicide bombings, even as police and troops tightened security.

Japan’s 126th Emperor Naruhito urged Japan to work together for world peace as he made his first public appearance yesterday in front of a

North Korea launched several unidentified projectiles into the sea yesterday, the South Korean military said, in what could be Pyongyang’s first short-range missile launch for more than a year as it seeks to up pressure on Washington with nuclear talks deadlocked.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Rama X of Thailand, is crowned in a dazzling show of pageantry, laced with Hindu and Buddhist ritual, vowing to reign "with righteousness" on behalf of the Thai people.