The reformist party that won Thailand’s general election was excluded yesterday from a coalition trying to form the next government, as lawmakers seek to overcome resistance from military and pro-royalist senators.

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would have “disastrous results” for the world, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told AFP in an interview yesterday, citing the island’s strategic importance for the semiconductor industry and global shipping lanes. Wu’s warning

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to be a virtual participant at a summit of BRICS nations in South Africa later this month rather than attend in person, sources in New Delhi told Reuters.

Militants behind a spate of suicide attacks in Pakistan were being helped by “Afghan citizens” across the border, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said, days after a deadly bombing at a political gathering near the countries’ shared frontier.

Hundreds of scouts at a massive jamboree in South Korea suffered heat exhaustion, organisers said yesterday, as the peninsula battles a heatwave that has caused a reported spike in heat-related deaths.

Indian authorities today enhanced security at sensitive places in Delhi following a second night of communal violence

Stepping up its campaign on the Manipur issue, India’s opposition leaders today met President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi to seek her intervention in the matter

India’s Supreme Court today began hearing on a batch of petitions challenging government’s abrogation of Article 370 of the constitution.

Deadly rains that pummelled China's capital in recent days were the heaviest since records began 140 years ago, Beijing's weather service said on Wednesday, as a massive cleanup operation began

At least five people, including two police personnel, were killed in communal clashes that erupted on Monday around 50km south of the Indian capital New Delhi, police officials told Reuters yesterday.

Myanmar reduced ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 33-year prison sentence by six years in a partial pardon yesterday, as the junta struggles to quell bloody resistance to its rule.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday came down heavily on the Manipur government as well as the police over the “complete break down of constitutional machinery” in the strife-torn state from May till July.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also the military’s commander-in-chief, on Monday appointed a new head of the armed force overseeing the nation’s conventional - and nuclear - missiles, one day before the anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army.

India’s Supreme Court today said there is complete breakdown of law and order and constitutional machinery in ethnic riot-hit Manipur

The no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will be debated in the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of Indian parliament, from August 8 to 10

Myanmar reduced ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's 33-year prison sentence by six years in a partial pardon on Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell bloody resistance to its rule

Jailed Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been pardoned in five criminal cases, although she still faces 14 others, state media said Tuesday

At least 11 people are dead and 27 missing after heavy rains lashed Beijing, Chinese state media said Tuesday

Tension ran high in Nuh in the northern Indian state of Haryana as some criminals threw stones and set cars on fire during a religious procession yesterday, Indian media reported citing the police

India’s Supreme Court yesterday pulled up the Manipur police over the delay in filing of the FIR after the horrific video of two tribal women being paraded naked surfaced on May 4.