A piece of aircraft wreckage found in June off Tanzania has been confirmed as coming from the doomed airliner MH370,

An explosion on a speedboat in Bali left two foreigners dead and 18 other tourists injured yesterday, sparking dramatic scenes as

Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body says it has issued a fatwa against intentionally starting forest fires in a bid to stop the blazes that cloak Southeast Asia in haze every year.

New Zealand will fund a multi-million dollar programme aimed at getting more children in Pacific island countries to play sport.

North Korea yesterday sought to justify its weapons programme as a defence against US nuclear "blackmail" as world

An Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Florida carrying a robot space probe on NASA's first quest to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth in hopes of learning more about the origins of life.

Thailand's junta-appointed lawmakers yesterday signed off on a nearly $124 million budget hike for defence spending, while

US President Barack Obama yesterday warned Beijing it could not ignore a tribunal's ruling rejecting its sweeping claims to the

Israel's Space Communication Ltd say on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite is destroyed by an explosion at SpaceX's Florida launch site.

Malaysia yesterday reported its first suspected case of Zika, a 58-year-old woman believed to have contracted it in neighbouring Singapore where more than 100 cases have been confirmed.

Confirmed cases of Zika virus in Singapore rose to 82 on Tuesday, as the United States joined a growing list of countries,

An Indonesian teenager who stabbed a priest in a church and tried to set off a homemade bomb was obsessed with the Islamic

Two suspects in a spate of bomb attacks on Thailand's tourist towns have links to southern Muslim rebels, police said yesterday,

Indian authorities lift curfew from Indian-controlled Kashmir after 52 days of lockdown in the region.

Six scientists complete a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation.

Thailand has suffered its first ATM (automatic teller machine) hack, which affected 21 cash machines in Bangkok and other provinces resulting in stolen cash totalling more than Bt12 million, while another 200 ATMs are suspected of having been infected with computer viruses.

The Olympic flag arrives in Tokyo as Japan's capital gears up to host the 2020 Games, with officials promising smooth sailing after Rio's sometimes shaky 2016 instalment.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi told China's premier yesterday that her new government is willing to look for a resolution

Thailand's junta yesterday detained at least 15 suspects at military barracks on suspicion of launching a string of deadly bomb

Vietnam's prime minister admits Olympic hopefuls faced inadequate training equipment before the games, including a lack of bullets in shooting, a discipline that won the nation's first ever gold.