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.

Myanmar's military junta did not allow a meeting between visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Indian media reported today.

India has officially reached out to Myanmar for the first time since the February 1 military coup to prescribe its military ruler to return to democracy and end all violence at the earliest.

A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience.

Dissident Chinese artists, including Ai Weiwei, have decried a Hong Kong university’s removal of a statue honouring protesters killed at

Two people were killed and two others injured after a powerful explosion ripped through an Indian court building yesterday, police said. Footage

A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, a government spokesman said, and several people were injured in the blast, according to unconfirmed reports.

Dozens of jade miners who remain missing yesterday following a landslide in Myanmar’s Kachin State have “very little chance of survival”, according to a fire department official.

A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, a government spokesman said, and several people were injured in the blast, according to unconfirmed reports.

Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan disrupted the erecting of a security fence by the Pakistani military along the border between the two countries, Afghan officials said on Wednesday.

A monument at a Hong Kong university that commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was removed by workers early Thursday over the objections of its creator from Denmark.

The death toll from Malaysia’s worst floods in years rose to 27 yesterday, as a clean-up operation gathered pace and residents assessed the

Myanmar’s oldest rebel force wants international help to establish a “no-fly zone” near the Thai border, after warning there was a danger of clashes with the army resulting in civilians being targeted by air strikes.

Altogether 8,244 non-Muslim people from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan had applied for Indian citizenship in the last four years and 3,117 of them were granted the citizenship, India’s Junior Minister for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha yesterday.

Altogether 8,244 non-Muslim persons from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan had applied for Indian citizenship in the last four years and of them, 3,117 were granted citizenship, India’s junior minister for Home Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha today.

A government school in India’s Kerala has given birth to a row for allowing its female students to wear trousers. The Government Girls Higher Secondary School in the town of Balussery has recently decided to let its students wear unisex uniforms -- shirt and pant, reports BBC.

Dozens of people are feared missing after a landslide early today at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to a civil society group and media reports.

Japan hanged three prisoners yesterday, its first executions in two years, with the government saying it was necessary to maintain capital punishment in the face of continued “atrocious crimes”.

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) yesterday chalked up a landslide victory in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections,