A pigeon that spent eight months in Indian police custody has been released after it was finally cleared of being a suspected Chinese spy.

More than 100 Rohingya refugees escaped a detention centre in Malaysia after a riot broke out, with one man killed after being hit by a vehicle on a highway as he fled, police said yesterday.

Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, who was convicted of graft over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, could be released by 2028 after his jail sentence was halved by a pardons board yesterday, prompting an uproar from critics who called on the government to explain its decision.

North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles yesterday, Seoul’s military said, continuing a fresh streak of weapons testing as Kim Jong Un’s regime ramps up what it calls “war preparations”.

India will start withdrawing its troops deployed in the Maldives from next month, Male’s foreign ministry said after talks yesterday.

Malaysia halved the jail sentence today of former premier Najib Razak, who was convicted of graft and money laundering related to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, a move expected to raise further questions about Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's commitment to fighting graft

A pigeon that spent eight months in Indian police custody has been released after it was finally cleared of being a suspected Chinese spy

An undocumented migrant from Myanmar has died in a road accident while fleeing an immigration detention centre with over a hundred others in Malaysia late Thursday, officials said

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of 31 armed MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones, related missiles and equipment to India for nearly $4 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday, years after the two countries started discussing a deal

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) has officially regretted the death of a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) soldier and expressed willingness to work together to prevent any such incident in the future, said the foreign ministry.

Pakistan’s general election will go ahead as scheduled next Thursday, caretaker interior minister Gohar Ejaz said, after a meeting summoned by the election commission to discuss increasing pre-poll violence in the west of the country.

India’s opposition parties yesterday accused the government of targeting their leaders in the build-up to elections after the financial crime agency arrested a state chief minister on corruption charges,

Over 130 Rohingyas landed on the shores of Indonesia’s Aceh province yesterday, an official at the UN refugee agency said, the latest in a series of such arrivals that have drawn controversy in the Southeast Asian country.

Pakistan's national election will go ahead as scheduled next Thursday despite security challenges, the election commission said today following a meeting to discuss increasing pre-poll violence in the west of the country

Uttar Pradesh police has arrested a Bangladeshi national on charge of staying in India without valid documents and operating an illegal immigration racket there

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Thursday for an end to violence in Myanmar and a return to democracy, three years to the day since the military seized power in a coup

The wife of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan -- jailed alongside her husband Wednesday for 14 years for graft -- is serving her sentence at home after their residence was officially declared a "sub-jail" by authorities

Myanmar on Thursday entered its fourth year since a coup snuffed out a short-lived dance with democracy, with the embattled junta warning it will do "whatever it takes" to crush opposition to its rule

A Pakistani anti-graft court jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan for 14 years each on charges of illegally selling state gifts, his party and lawyers said yesterday, just over a week before a national election.

Myanmar’s military rulers yesterday extended a state of emergency in place since a 2021 coup, as the junta battles to contain a bloody, pro-democracy rebellion that has severely tested its ability to govern.