A crowd of women marched through the Afghan capital yesterday, accusing Taliban authorities of covertly killing soldiers who served the former US-backed regime.

A leading Myanmar actor, singer and model who was on a junta celebrity wanted list for supporting pro-democracy protests has been jailed for three years, his legal team said Monday.

The death toll from one of the most destructive typhoons to hit the Philippines in recent years rose to 388 yesterday, the government said, as

Sri Lanka yesterday announced the closure of three overseas diplomatic missions in a bid to save foreign currency reserves, as the country’s

A Myanmar junta court yesterday again postponed giving its verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial for illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, a source with knowledge of the case said.

The new United Nations special envoy to Myanmar yesterday said she was “deeply concerned” by escalating violence in the country and called for a new year ceasefire between the military and its opponents.

A Myanmar junta court on Monday again postponed giving its verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi's trial for illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, a source with knowledge of the case said.

China has replaced Chen Quanguo, who as Communist Party chief in the Xinjiang region oversaw a security crackdown targeting

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.

Chinese lawmakers are discussing new rules to prevent workplace discrimination and sexual harassment against women amid a string of high-profile cases in recent months.

The Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan’s election commission, a panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration, a spokesman for the Islamist government said yesterday.

The death toll from Malaysia’s worst floods in years rose to 46 yesterday, with five people still missing, officials said, as work crews continued a massive clean-up on Christmas day.

More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar’s conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human rights group.

More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar's conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human rights group.

Myanmar’s military carried out more airstrikes on a rebel-controlled area near the Thai border, the rebel group said yesterday, in the latest escalation of violence that has sent hundreds fleeing into Thailand.

Asian markets rose in thin trade yesterday, extending their rally as fears over the Omicron coronavirus variant faded and further positive economic data from the United States cheered investors.

Two Hong Kong universities yesterday removed sculptures marking Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, as authorities steadily erase all remaining traces of the deadly event from the southern Chinese territory.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law legislation that bans imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said, provoking an angry Chinese condemnation.

South Korea’s ex-president Park Geun-hye received a pardon yesterday, cutting short a jail term of more than 20 years for corruption with her successor saying he granted it in the interest of national unity.