A court in military-ruled Myanmar yesterday deferred the first verdicts in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Dec. 6, a source familiar with the proceedings said.

Myanmar's military government has filed a new corruption charge against deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Win Myint, state-run broadcaster MRTV reported on Tuesday.

The Indian government today said it has not taken any decision yet to prepare a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC).

For more than two decades, Taiwan tried to buy a fleet of modern conventional submarines to fend off an existential threat – invasion by China. There were no takers.

India’s parliament yesterday passed a bill to repeal three laws aiming at deregulating agricultural markets, bowing to pressure from farmers who have protested for over a year to demand that the laws be rolled back.

The Lok Sabha, lower House of the Indian parliament, today passed a bill to repeal the three contentious agricultural sector reform laws, against which farmers have been protesting for over a year, within minutes of its introduction without discussion.

Japan will reinstate tough border measures, barring all new foreign arrivals over the Omicron Covid-19 variant, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced on Monday (Nov 29), just weeks after a softening of strict entry rules.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday swept the urban civic body elections in north eastern state of Tripura bagging all the seats of the 51-member Agartala Municipal Corporation and taking control of several other municipalities.

China is expected to continue its much-criticised Zero Covid policy, shutting the country to most of the world as a new study has warned of a “colossal outbreak” with over 6.30 lakh patients per day if it opens up despite Omicron concerns.

The Taliban co-founder and now prime minister of Afghanistan Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund pledged late Saturday that his government will “not interfere” in other countries’ internal affairs, and urged international charities to continue offering aid to the war-ravaged country.

At least 15 people -- heading for a funeral -- were dead when the vehicle carrying them and the mortal remains of the dead rammed into a stationary truck in West Bengal’s Nadia district early today.

The widow of a South Korean dictator who brutally crushed opponents until mass demonstrations forced him from power apologised yesterday for the “pains and wounds” of her husband’s rule.

The foreign ministers of India, Russia and China on Friday expressed concern at the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and the spread of drug trafficking in the country.

Seoul has started trialling pint-sized robots as teaching aids in kindergartens -- a pilot project the city government said would help prepare the next generation for a hi-tech future.

The United States on Friday issued a joint statement along with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea and Britain expressing concern over a military offensive in Myanmar that they say is disproportionately harming civilians.

Pakistan yesterday strongly condemned the statement of Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement — in which he said “the only solution to the pain of Partition lies in undoing it” — terming it “delusional thinking and historical revisionism”.

A high percentage of women in 18 Indian states, including Kerala with cent percent literacy, consider domestic violence against women to be justified, according to the latest National Family Health Survey 2019-21 (NFHS-5).

Schools and colleges in India’s capital will reopen on Monday after closing for nearly 15 days due to a spike in air pollution, the government said, even though air quality remains very poor in New Delhi and its neighbouring cities.

China’s carbon emissions fell in the third quarter for the first time since its economic recovery from the coronavirus began, new research shows, partly as a result of a clampdown on property development and widespread coal shortages.

Several regions in China have extended maternity leave by at least 30 days, in the latest attempt to encourage child-rearing as the country faces a demographic crisis fuelled by a record-low birth rate.