At least 13 people were killed and 38 injured in eastern Indonesia on Sunday in an explosion at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant, the owner of the industrial park that hosts the facility said

Sri Lanka's police announced Sunday the arrests of nearly 15,000 people during a week-long military-backed anti-narcotics drive, a crackdown denounced by rights activists

The Congress party government in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has decided to reverse a ban imposed by the previous BJP dispensation on wearing hijabs in schools and colleges

Chinese police have shut down 34,000 online accounts and punished more than 6,300 people for allegedly spreading rumours as part of a crackdown launched in April, state media reported yesterday.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court yesterday granted former Prime Minister Imran Khan bail in a case related to a leak of state secrets, but it was not clear how he could be released while serving a three-year sentence for corruption and facing other charges.

At least 31 people were killed in floods and heavy rain in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu this week, a top federal minister said yesterday, as rescuers struggled to reach scores still stranded in high waters.

The toll from China’s deadliest earthquake in years rose to 148 today, state media reported, as authorities turned their attention to resettling thousands of people displaced by the disaster.

A second reactor at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear facility appears to be operational, according to the UN atomic agency.

When bank executive Zhou Wei heard, he would no longer need to apply for a visa to visit Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand come early 2024, he earmarked them as his next possible holiday destinations

A court has ordered a $1.14 billion worldwide asset freeze on the founders of collapsed cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, the Singapore-based firm's liquidators said Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned Pyongyang will not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if "provoked with nukes", state media said Thursday, while Seoul and its allies called for "dialogue without preconditions"

Malaysia banned yesterday Israeli-flagged cargo ships from docking at its ports in response to Israel’s actions in Gaza, which it said ignores “basic humanitarian principles”.

Thailand has stopped issuing new gun licences for a year, the interior ministry announced yesterday, after a series of high-profile shootings.

Bodies of 87 people killed during bitter ethnic violence over the past eight months in India’s Manipur state were buried in a mass ceremony yesterday, a community leader said.

At least 10 people were killed in floods after intense rainfall in southern India, local media reported yesterday, weeks after a cyclone triggered intense flooding in the same areas.

India will look into any information it receives on its alleged links to a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist leader in the United States,

Malaysia banned on Wednesday Israeli-flagged cargo ships from docking at its ports in response to Israel's actions in Gaza, which it said ignores "basic humanitarian principles"

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck one of China’s poorest regions just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 127 people, injuring hundreds and bringing down mud houses in remote villages that never stood a chance.

Halal-certified bakeries in largely Muslim Malaysia can now put Christmas greetings on cakes for their customers, religious authorities said, reversing a three-year-old ban following public uproar.

More than half of all opposition lawmakers have been barred from the ongoing session of India’s parliament for demanding a debate into a protest last week in which a smoke canister was released in the legislature.