A cross-country march led by Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi reached the capital New Delhi yesterday, hoping to regain some of the popularity it lost to the ruling Hindu-nationalist party.

China expressed yesterday anger at a new US defence authorisation law that boosts military assistance for Taiwan, while Taipei cheered it for helping boost the island’s security.

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration yesterday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the latest crackdown on women’s freedoms.

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the latest crackdown on women's freedoms.

Rescuers have called off the search for bodies after a massive, predawn landslide blanketed a campsite north of Malaysia's capital killing 31 people, officials said on Saturday.

Hong Kong is aiming to reopen its border with China by mid-January, city leader John Lee announced on Saturday after returning from meetings in Beijing.

Shanghai authorities urged residents to stay at home this weekend, seeking a toned-down Christmas in the nation's most populous city as Covid-19 rages nationwide after tough curbs were lifted.

Two weeks after China abruptly lifted its long-held zero-Covid restrictions, the health authorities are scrambling to expand critical care capacity to deal with the surge in infections, which has already led to long lines at under-resourced hospitals.

India is planning to make a Covid-19 negative test report mandatory for passengers arriving from countries with a high number of cases, the country's health minister said during an interview with broadcaster NewsX on Friday.

Sixteen soldiers were killed in India’s remote northeast yesterday when the military truck transporting them skidded down a steep mountain slope and crashed, the army said.

China is expecting a peak in Covid-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country’s health system even as they downplay the disease’s severity and continue to report no new deaths.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha is to seek another term in a general election due to be held in the kingdom before May next year, he told local media yesterday.

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a flurry of sanctions-busting weapons tests.

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison yesterday after nearly two decades behind bars.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned the Taliban that the United States will impose “costs” on the group if it does not reverse its recent ban on women attending university in Afghanistan.

Sixteen Indian army men died today after a truck carrying them skidded down a steep slope and fell into a gorge in the north eastern state of Sikkim, the army said in a statement.

A policeman was killed and at least six people — including four police officers and two civilians — were injured in a suicide blast in Islamabad's I-10/4 sector on Friday, police officials said.

Prices in Japan rose at their fastest pace since 1981 in November, data showed Friday, fuelled in part by higher energy costs.

A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with Covid-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people will get infected by the end of next week, while the virus sweeps through China largely unchecked.

The UN Security Council called for Myanmar’s junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi as it adopted on Wednesday its first ever resolution on the situation in the turmoil-ridden Southeast Asian country.