Indian police said they arrested 74 Rohingya refugees yesterday for living “illegally” in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh - a move activists condemned as an arbitrary crackdown on people fleeing violence.

The Chinese embassy in Japan said on Monday that NATO's plan to expand into the Asia-Pacific violates UN rules and hoped Japan, in its interaction with NATO, would refrain from actions that undermine trust among countries in the region.

At least 15 people were killed and 19 more were missing on Monday after a wooden boat sank off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, search and rescue officials said

Ten people have died and one remained trapped after the roof of a school gym collapsed in northeastern China, state media reported Monday

Fighting between the Myanmar army and anti-junta rebels has flared in recent days, with locals in one village saying Saturday that more than a dozen people were killed in a single raid.

Energy ministers from the group of 20 nations meeting in India on Saturday failed to agree on a roadmap to phase down the use of fossil fuels in the global energy mix.

Indian rescuers have called off a search for survivors of a landslide that hit a village in the western state of Maharashtra on Thursday, killing at least 27 people, an official said.

Indian police arrested a fifth accused in connection with the video that surfaced on July 19 showing two women being paraded naked by a mob and sexually assaulted in the country’s strife-torn Manipur.

China sent dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan, said the island’s defense ministry yesterday.

A government taskforce in The Gambia announced Friday that four cough syrups imported from India were responsible for the deaths of at least 70 children from kidney failure last year.

The reformist party that won Thailand’s recent election said yesterday it would back a rival candidate to become prime minister after its own leader was blocked by the military and pro-royalist establishment.

The Philippines will no longer deal with the International Criminal Court, President Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday, after The Hague-based tribunal rejected Manila’s appeal to stop a probe into a deadly drug war.

At least seven people were killed and 16 others missing in Bhutan after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains washed away a section of a small hydroelectric plant on Thursday, local media reported.

India and Sri Lanka said yesterday that they had agreed to improve economic ties by increasing cooperation in renewable energy and studying the feasibility of building an oil pipeline and a land bridge between the two countries.

A man was arrested by police today for allegedly trying to enter West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence with weapons in his car in Kalighat of south Kolkata, India

The reformist party that won Thailand's recent election said Friday it would back a rival candidate to become prime minister after its own leader was blocked by the military and pro-royalist establishment.

Four persons, including a man who was part of the mob that paraded two women naked in Kangpokpi district of Manipur and was seen dragging one of them, were arrested yesterday as the incident continued to evoke outrage across India.

It is China’s “priority” to stop Taiwan’s vice president and presidential frontrunner William Lai from visiting the United States next month, the country’s ambassador in Washington said on Wednesday, as Beijing steps up its warnings against the trip.

Thailand’s parliament will hold another vote for a prime minister next week which cannot include the leader of election winners Move Forward, a deputy speaker said yesterday, after rivals derailed his bid by blocking his re-nomination.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday condemned the alleged sexual assault of women in Manipur state as “shameful” and promised tough action, his first comments on ethnic clashes in the remote northeast which have killed at least 125 people.