South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said yesterday that the North’s “irrational” regime was likely to carry out multiple provocations, including cyberattacks and drone intrusions, ahead of the South’s April election.

India has deployed at least a dozen warships east of the Red Sea to provide security against pirates and has investigated more than 250 vessels as Western powers focus on attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, Indian officials said.

In mid-January, at a small gathering in a cantonment town in Myanmar, hard line pro-military monk Pauk Kotaw suggested that the country’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing step down and his deputy take over. The crowd cheered in agreement, according to videos of the event posted on social media.

Myanmar's National Defence and Security Council agreed on Wednesday to extend a state of emergency by six months, the junta said, again delaying elections the military has promised to hold

Myanmar's junta has eased rules on the registration of political parties, state media reported on Wednesday, hours before a state of emergency is set to expire

Sultan Ibrahim, the wealthy and outspoken ruler of Malaysia's southern Johor state, was sworn in as the country's new king in a ceremony on Wednesday

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his wife were sentenced today to 14 years in jail after being found guilty of graft in a case involving gifts he received while premier.

North Korea fired another round of cruise missiles yesterday, Seoul’s military said, extending a recent flurry of tests of weapons that analysts warned could be destined for Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Pakistan’s preeminent rights activist describes the upcoming election as a messy melodrama staged by an emboldened military, unlikely to bring down the curtain on a cast of crises plaguing the country.

Amid the attack on merchant navy vessels in the Red Sea and deployment of the Indian Navy’s ships in the region, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar yesterday said India’s greater capability, its own interest and reputation today warrant that it actually help in difficult situations.

India’s navy said yesterday it had freed an Iranian fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates, the second in as many days, after the latest attack on Indian Ocean shipping.

The Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) Manoj Sonkar won the Chandigarh mayoral elections yesterday, defeating Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Kuldeep Kumar.

A Pakistan court jailed Imran Khan for 10 years yesterday for leaking state secrets, the harshest sentence the former prime minister and cricket superstar has received and announced just days before a general election.

At least 12 Rohingyas were killed and dozens injured in the Myanmar military’s recent shelling of Rohingya villages, the UN Human Rights Office said in a statement yesterday, calling for the protection of the population from acts of genocide.

Soldier says after deserting Myanmar military; junta shaken by rebel advances, losses of men

A special court of Pakistan established under the Official Secrets Act on Tuesday handed both former premier Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi 10 years in jail in the cipher case

The main opposition party in the Maldives is set to begin impeachment proceedings against its pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers yesterday pressed for an end to Myanmar’s bloody conflict and expressed unity in their backing for a regional peace plan and a “junta-owned and led solution” to the crisis.

Pakistan and Iran yesterday said that they respected each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and resolved to expand security cooperation, stepping up efforts to mend ties after tit-for-tat missile strikes this month at what they said were militant targets.

Maldivian lawmakers voted against the appointment of three cabinet members today after an unprecedented parliamentary punch-up over the ratification of the posts left at least one MP seriously injured