The first meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Joe Biden this year is a positive signal that the two superpowers want to improve their working relationship, analysts have said.

India has said its ties with Bangladesh stand out as a “model relationship” in the Indian subcontinent in terms of benefits of regional cooperation.

The UN today adopted a resolution calling upon Myanmar to address the root causes of the Rohingya crisis and create conducive environment in Rakhine to facilitate voluntary, safe, and dignified return of the refugees to their homeland.

China is "ready to be a partner and friend of the United States," President Xi Jinping told US business leaders on Wednesday, as concerns mount over the country's slowing economy

The death toll has risen to 19 from a fire at a coal company's office building in China's northern Shanxi province, Chinese state media said on Thursday

US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping Wednesday that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands Wednesday and pledged to reduce tensions as they met for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in California

At least 36 people were killed and 19 wounded as a bus fell into a 300-foot gorge in India’s Jammu and Kashmir yesterday, officials said.

The Maldives’s incoming president Mohamed Muizzu has vowed to expel Indian troops after taking office later this week, but told AFP he does not want to redraw regional balance by bringing in Chinese forces instead.

Seventy-five civilians have been killed in clashes in Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic minority groups launched an offensive against the military last month, the United Nations said on Wednesday

At least 30 people were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday when a passenger bus skidded off a mountainous road and plunged down a rocky slope, police said

Fighters from an ethnic minority group pressed their assault on security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine state for a second day yesterday, a spokesman said, as an offensive against the military widens across the country.

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court yesterday issued a symbolic ruling that the powerful Rajapaksa brothers -- including two ex-presidents -- were guilty of triggering the island’s worst financial crisis by mishandling the economy.

Myanmar's junta has imposed a curfew in the western city of Sittwe, according to a government document and media reports, amid a surge in fighting on several fronts between the military and ethnic minority insurgent groups

More than 2,000 Myanmar nationals entered India through the border in Mizoram state in the last 24 hours following a gun battle between that country's security forces and rebels in Chin province, an official said yesterday

India’s home (interior) ministry yesterday declared nine groups in the troubled northeastern state of Manipur as unlawful for a period of five years, saying they were engaging in activities prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India, according to a government notification posted on X by news agency ANI.

Ethnic minority insurgent groups attacked security posts in Myanmar yesterday, residents, rebels and an official said, as fighting erupted on two new fronts, and thousands of people crossed into neighbouring India seeking safety.

Rescuers were able to make contact with 40 labourers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand yesterday and were hopeful they would be rescued soon, an official said.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden will discuss “global peace and development” at a summit this week in San Francisco, Beijing said yesterday.

More children in South Asia are struggling due to severe water scarcity made worse by the impacts of climate change than anywhere else worldwide, the United Nations said yesterday.