Thousands of demonstrators from a banned Pakistani Islamist group clashed with police yesterday, killing and wounding several people from both sides, police and the group said.

China yesterday insisted that Taiwan had no right to join the United Nations, after the United States ratcheted up tensions with a call for the democratic island to have greater involvement in the world body.

India’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered an independent investigation into the alleged government use of Pegasus spyware on journalists, opposition politicians and activists with the chief justice calling the implications “Orwellian”.

Bottled water, vaccine development, short video platform TikTok and electric vehicle technology propelled the big earners on China's rich list this year, as embattled property moguls and others facing regulatory scrutiny slipped down the rankings.

Hiroshima A-bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi, who became a prominent campaigner for nuclear disarmament and met Barack Obama on his historic visit to the city, has died aged 96, his advocacy group said Wednesday.

Japan’s former Princess Mako and her newly-wed husband Kei Komuro held a much-anticipated press briefing yesterday after finally tying the knots.

Asia suffered its hottest year on record in 2020, the United Nations said yesterday ahead of the COP26 summit, with extreme weather taking a heavy toll on the continent’s development.

Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday but remained near multi-year highs, supported by a global supply shortage and strong demand in the United States, the world’s biggest consumer.

Women activists in Kabul yesterday held up signs that read “why is the world watching us die in silence?” protesting the

Japan’s princess Mako married her university sweetheart yesterday, but it was a low-key union bereft of traditional rituals, with the couple voicing sadness over the controversy that haunted their engagement.

Fahima has wept many times since her husband sold their two young daughters into marriage to survive the drought gripping western Afghanistan.

Southeast Asian leaders sharply criticised Myanmar’s junta as a regional summit opened yesterday without a representative from the country, following its top general’s exclusion for ignoring a peace roadmap agreed six months ago.

Sadhguru -- an internationally revered Indian yoga teacher, author and public speaker -- recently, while answering a question, has said that it is not fair to say attacks on temples and Hindus are happening “in” Bangladesh, as such statement might indicate that it is happening “all over the country”.

The Bharatiya Janata Party government of Karnataka state has told the Indian Supreme Court that it has no immediate plan to deport the 72 Rohingyas in its jurisdiction.

Japan's Princess Mako, the eldest niece of Emperor Naruhito, married her university sweetheart on Tuesday morning (Oct 26) in a stripped-down, low-key administrative affair.

India’s health authorities are on alert as Covid genomic surveillance experts reported some cases of a new sub-lineage of SARS CoV 2’s Delta variant, which is potentially more infectious, in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra states.

Reports on Myanmar by two United Nations envoys used unreliable sources, made sweeping allegations and infringed on the country’s sovereignty, the ruling junta said in its latest swipe at the international community’s response to its crisis.

Millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from the brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official warned, calling for frozen funds to be freed for humanitarian efforts.

Malaysia's Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin reminded his fellow politicians to put on their masks in meetings, seeing that "many politicians have diabetes, hypertension and are probably obese".

"This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration and starvation unless we can step up our life-saving assistance," said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme.