South Koreans go to the polls to choose a new president after Park Geun-Hye was ousted and indicted for corruption, and against a backdrop of high tensions with the nuclear-armed North.

The first large made-in-China passenger plane takes off on its maiden test flight, marking a key milestone on the country's ambitious journey to compete with the world's leading aircraft makers.

Maldives police on Wednesday announced the arrest of two potential suspects in the killing of a liberal blogger last month that sparked

Five men were charged with violating Thailand's draconian royal defamation law for sharing Facebook posts written by an exiled dissident

More than half of Rohingya Muslim girls who fled violence in western Myanmar ended up becoming child brides, according to a United

The Vatican and Myanmar established full diplomatic relations yesterday in the latest step in the former pariah Asian state's

Calcutta High Court judge Justice C S Karnan orders issuance of non-bailable warrants against seven judges of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice of India (CJI), for not being represented before him.

Twelve workers die following an explosion in a high-speed rail tunnel in south-western China, state media says after rescuers spent over 14 hours searching the rubble for survivors.

Samsung Electronics is predicted to become the world’s largest chipmaker in the coming quarter, displacing Intel, which has retained the top spot for the past 24 years.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited his Philippine counterpart to Washington in a "friendly" call in which the leaders

Southeast Asian countries took a softer stance on South China Sea disputes during a weekend summit, according to a statement

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sacks one of his special advisers and sanctions another bureaucrat after an inquiry into a newspaper leak, but the country's powerful army rejects Sharif's directive as "incomplete".

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippines early yesterday, triggering a tsunami warning that was later lifted, Philippine and

Nineteen people were killed and 21 injured after their bus toppled into a ravine in eastern Myanmar, police said yesterday. The bus was

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday warned Southeast Asian leaders they were facing a "massive" illegal drug menace that

At least 130 executions were carried out in 11 Asian countries in 2016. The vast majority of them were executed in Pakistan and 10 in Bangladesh. However there is no data available about executions in China, still believed to be by far the world’s top executioner.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak warned yesterday that Southeast Asian countries needed to ensure their economic growth was

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tells the UN Security Council that he is alarmed by the risk of military escalation on the Korean Peninsula.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends the closest-ever images of Saturn after surviving its first plunge inside the planet's rings, the US space agency says.

Thailand will hold the cremation for its late king Bhumibol Adulyadej on October 26, the junta announced yesterday. Government