Asia is home to more Fortune Global 500 companies than any other continent, and Beijing hosts more global companies, the most of any city in the world.

The United Nations' Human Rights Council has replaced the chairwoman of a team investigating allegations of killings and rape by

Indonesia has 45 million active users of Instagram in a month, making the country the biggest market in Asia Pacific.

Bihar Chief Minsiter Nitish Kumar resigns from his post citing that his conscience has pricked him to take the decision.

Ramnath Kovind, who was elected the president of India as the nominee of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, is sworn in as the 14th head of state and called for preserving the diversity and unity of the country.

Twelve of Yingluck Shinawatra’s bank accounts will be seized by the Department of Legal Execution in the first civil liability action against the ex-premier whose rice-pledging scheme has been alleged to have caused huge financial damages to Thailand.

China is the world's largest holder of foreign exchange reserves. It has over two and half times more foreign reserves than the second largest reserve holder, Japan. The Asian giant has US$3.483 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, despite recent fall in foreign reserves.

In the middle of the night on July 4, more than a dozen masked men, dressed head-to-toe in black, surrounded Abdu Sulwon's home

A leader of Thailand's 'Red Shirt' movement was jailed yesterday for defaming an ex-prime minister, sidelining a key voice of dissent

At least 28 people are killed after a bus plunges into a deep gorge in a Himalayan region of northern India popular with tourists, police say.

Some very "peculiar signals" have been noticed come from a star just 11 light-years away, scientists in Puerto Rico say.

Plans are underway to rebrand palm oil, according to a Malaysian minister.

Thailand has amended a royal property law to formally give King Maha Vajiralongkorn full control of the agency which manages the

President Rodrigo Duterte offered self-rule to the Philippines' Muslim minority yesterday in an attempt to defeat Islamist militants who

The long-lost bag used by US astronaut Neil Armstrong to bring back to Earth the first samples of moon dust is expected to sell for up to $4 million when it is auctioned with other space memorabilia in New York City.

The Bangabandhu-1 satellite will be ready to start for testing operation from September, says State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halim. The satellite will be prepared by November depending on weather and schedule of the USA launcher, she says.

The ashes of China's late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo are scattered in the sea after a controversial funeral, as his friends worried about the fate of the democracy advocate's widow.

Web-based Telegram is blocked in Indonesia as the government finds some of its users promote radicalism and terrorism in the web.

China lashes out at international criticism after it denied Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo's dying wish to leave the country and faced pressure to set the democracy champion's widow free.

China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam have the world’s four biggest coal-fired power plants in pipeline. Together, they represent 82 percent of the 718 units globally under construction.