North Korea’s foreign ministry called on the United Nations to urge a halt to joint military drills by Seoul and Washington, state media reported yesterday.

Police in Pakistan said officers attempted on Sunday to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, who is battling several legal cases as he pressures the government for early elections

Indonesia will relocate residents living near a fuel-storage fire that killed 16 people or remove the depot owned by state energy company Pertamina to a safer location, President Joko Widodo said on Sunday..The decision will rest with State-Owned Enterprise Minister Erick Thohir, Pertamina

"China's economy is staging a steady recovery and demonstrating vast potential and momentum for further growth"

A provincial governor in the central Philippines and five other people were shot dead by unknown gunmen yesterday, his widow said, in the latest attack against local officials.

Three former organisers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil to commemorate Beijing’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown were found guilty yesterday for refusing to submit information to national security police.

North Korean state media yesterday weighed in on allegations that Western nations were involved in blasts that damaged Russia’s undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines last year, in the latest move by Pyongyang to express support for Moscow.

Authorities in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore have refused permission for a rally to mark International Women’s Day, which regularly meets a fierce backlash in the conservative, patriarchal country.

At least 17 people were killed when a fire broke out on Friday at a fuel storage station operated by Indonesia's state energy company Pertamina in the capital Jakarta, an official at the city's main firefighting unit said

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of hypocrisy after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia cannot be allowed to wage war in Ukraine with impunity, during a security forum they attended in New Delhi yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s top court yesterday ordered the government to proceed with a delayed local election, overruling President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said the country was too broke to pay for it.

Myanmar’s military rulers now see civilians as their adversaries and are making war on the country’s own people, harming even the basic ability to live, the United Nations said yesterday.

The United States, Japan, India and Australia yesterday expressed concern over the militarisation of Asia’s waters, in a veiled reference to China’s growing presence in contested seas.

A report published by the United Nations on Friday accused Myanmar's military of creating "a perpetual human rights crisis" in the southeast Asian country and called for an immediate end to violence there.

The world cannot recover from a spate of crises if its poorest nations are forgotten, the UN envoy for the least developed countries told AFP ahead of a key summit

Xi Jinping will secure a third term as China's president at a rubber-stamp parliament that starts this weekend, enjoying unchallengeable status despite criticism over his handling of Covid and the economy

The Indian Supreme Court yesterday ordered a probe into the Adani-Hindenburg episode and set up a six-member expert committee to be headed by its retired Judge AM Sapre.

India’s top court yesterday ordered the setting up of a bipartisan panel that will include the prime minister and the chief justice to select the country’s election commissioners, ending a practice of the government effectively choosing them.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies -- IPFT and NDPP -- retain power in Tripura and Nagaland, as per the latest trends post the initial rounds of counting in these two northeast states in India.

US boutique investment firm GQG Partners has bought shares worth $1.87 billion in four Adani group companies, marking the first major investment in the Indian conglomerate since a short-seller's critical report sparked a stock rout..The group's seven listed companies have lost some $135 bi