Ninh Binh is one of the most spectacular places on earth to visit.

With Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party securing a landslide win in the Indian elections, AFP looks at the key economic challenges facing Asia's third-biggest economy:

Bank accounts of 41 terror suspects in Sri Lanka having links with the outlawed Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jammath

With the national election over and the BJP making a big bang comeback, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted he will fly to his home

Suspected cow vigilantes allegedly thrashed two persons in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni with sticks, accusing them of carrying beef, following

More than 40 percent of lawmakers in India’s new parliament face criminal charges -- some as serious as murder and rape -- and the

US National Security Adviser John Bolton yesterday said North Korea’s recent missile launches violated a UN Security Council resolution

Mamata Banerjee, addressing her first press conference after her party’s national election setback in Bengal, said she did not want to

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says she offered to quit but her party Trinamool Congress refused to accept the resignation.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi offers to resign from the party post taking responsibility for its abject defeat in the just ended parliamentary elections while the party's top decision-making forum unanimously rejected it.

Indonesia presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto lodges a challenge to the result of the April 17 election in the Constitutional Court after complaining that the vote won by President Joko Widodo was rigged.

Taiwan has made history with Asia's first legal gay weddings as same-sex couples have tied the knot in jubilant and emotional scenes, the culmination of a three-decade fight for equality.

Malaysian officials are disguising themselves as cooks and waiters to catch Muslims who don’t fast during Ramadan, with a rights group yesterday blasting the “disgraceful act of spying”.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded release of Nanda, a broadcast journalist who has been “held without charges” in Myanmar.

The US government is lobbying South Korea not to use Huawei Technologies Co Ltd products, a South Korean newspaper reports, amid a wider push by Washington to get its allies to reject the Chinese tech firm's goods.

Most US businesses in China are hurting from the tariffs war between the two countries, forcing some companies to relocate abroad or refocus their business, a survey shows.

About 89 percent of the world had access to electricity as of 2017, up from 83 percent in 2010, with notable recent progress made in Bangladesh, Kenya and Myanmar.

A Tokyo police smartphone app to scare off molesters has become a smash hit in Japan, where women have long run the gauntlet of

India’s main opposition Congress party has told its workers not to lose heart and to remain vigilant at vote-count centres after exit

Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is to challenge the official election result in the Constitutional Court, campaign team official Sufmi Dasco said on Tuesday.