Jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he would not be a candidate for prime minister in elections due by

The Malaysian government is going ahead with its tourism tax to be imposed from July 1.

An explosion rocks a kindergarten in eastern China, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens, authorities said, as state media published images showing bloodied and unconscious victims.

Maznah Unyan, 49, remembers the first time she set foot in Kuala Lumpur, it was the furthest she had ever been away from her orang asli village in Pulau Carey, Klang.

Experts question impact of politicians’ social media presence.

A family in Phitsanulok’s Muang district in Thailand has opened its doors – with free accommodation for foreign backpackers to expose their two young sons to everyday use of English.

United States special forces are providing support to the Philippine military battling to dislodge Islamist militants in a southern city,

Hundreds of people gathered on a beach in southern Myanmar yesterday desperately waiting for news of their loved ones as the first

Astronomers find a new application for Albert Einstein's century-old theory of relativity - using it to directly measure the size of a star beyond the sun.

Muslim scholars in Indonesia call on clerics to stay away from politics following the religious sentiment that may divide the country. Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) across the country are told to stay away from politics.

An Indian army major and five suspected militants were killed in a gunfight in a remote northeastern Indian state close to the border with

The Indonesian government is predicting that the recent severing of ties between several Arab countries and Qatar would deal a blow to the archipelago’s tourism industry, with 50,000 expected tourists not showing up because of the crisis, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Southeast Asian nations plan to use spy planes and drones to stem the movement of militants across their porous borders, defence

Britain's Prince Harry began a goodwill visit to Asia on a subdued note yesterday following a deadly terror attack in London. The fifth in

There are about 1,200 Islamic State (IS) group operatives in the Philippines, including foreigners of whom 40 are from Indonesia, the

China has 331,110 megawatts of installed electricity-generation capacity - nearly seven times higher hydropower installed capacity than India and more than the rest of Asian countries combined.

Security footage shows the man responsible for one of the Philippine capital’s deadliest attacks in years casually exiting a taxi just after midnight and walking calmly into a vast entertainment and gambling complex like any other visitor.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said that Islamic State militants were not behind the attack on a casino in the capital

Loud explosions rang out in the now mostly deserted city of Marawai yesterday as Philippine fighter jets launched fresh bombing runs

Gunfire was heard at a hotel and a casino resort in the Philippine capital early today, and the Islamic State group (IS) quickly claimed