Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will dissolve parliament on Friday ahead of a snap election on February 8

Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman has found himself in the centre of controversy after a recent BBC interview in which he suggested he may have lost work in Bollywood due to communal bias.

India has decided to withdraw all family members and dependents of diplomats and other officials from the High Commission of India and other missions in Bangladesh, PTI reported yesterday, citing official sources.

Japan logged 42.7 million arrivals last year, according to the transport ministry

It marks the lowest birth rate since records by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) began in 1949

Rescuers on Sunday found the debris from a small plane that went missing in eastern Indonesia, but have yet to locate the 10 passengers who were on board, officials said

A syndicate smuggled at least 15 Indonesian newborns to Singapore, using forged documents

Indonesian authorities are searching for a plane carrying three government workers and seven crew members after contact with the aircraft was lost on Saturday, officials said.

Indonesian authorities are searching for a small passenger plane after contact was lost on Saturday with the aircraft carrying 11 people, rescue officials told AFP.

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on a raft of measures from trade to tourism yesterday at the first meeting between the countries’ leaders in Beijing in eight years.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled violence by the Myanmar army and Buddhist militias, escaping to neighbouring Bangladesh and bringing harrowing accounts of mass rape, arson and murder

The air force chiefs of Pakistan and Bangladesh held talks on a potential pact covering the sale of JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to Dhaka, Pakistan’s military said, as Islamabad widens its arms supply ambitions and beefs up ties with Bangladesh.

High-level air force talks underline expanding military cooperation

Torrential rains battered Indonesia’s Siau island, causing a flash flood that killed at least 16 people, with another three missing, authorities said yesterday.

Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he would introduce legislation this year to limit the prime minister’s term to a maximum 10 years, fulfilling one of his campaign promises.

A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.2 million for a giant bluefin tuna yesterday at an annual prestigious new year auction in Tokyo’s main fish market, smashing the previous all-time high.

Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim said Monday he would introduce legislation this year to limit the prime minister's term to a maximum 10 years, fulfilling one of his campaign promises

Sovereignty of all countries must be protected, foreign minister says

The nation is dealing with a looming demographic crisis

The shallow quake was centered three kilometres outside of Dhing near India's border with Bhutan and hit around 4:17am