North Korea yesterday pulled out of a liaison office with the South, in a major setback for Seoul, just hours after the United States imposed the first new sanctions on the North since the second US-North Korea summit broke down last month.

A labour activist has been detained by police in southern China, his wife says, amid a crackdown on students and activists advocating for worker rights.

An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 47 people and injured more than 600, state media says, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has angered the public.

South Korean police have arrested two men for using illegal spy cameras at motels to film and livestream videos of about 1,600 guests, raking in about 7 million won ($6,200) over the past three months, police said on Wednesday.

The deputy executive editor-in-chief of Sin Chew Daily Tai Siew Kim is killed in a landslide caused by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Lombok Island of Indonesia.

When Afghan refugee Abdul Aziz saw a man brandishing a gun outside his mosque in Christchurch, he ran towards the attacker armed with the only weapon he could find -- a hand-held credit card machine.

The calm and compassion shown by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in response to the killing of 50 Muslims by a suspected white supremacist has burnished the credentials of a leader whose youth and celebrity had given critics' doubts.

The family of the Australian man arrested for the slaughter of 50 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand said yesterday they were stunned and "shattered" by his horrific deed.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday said she would be looking for answers from Facebook and other social media firms about how an attack that killed 50 mosque-goers was livestreamed on their platforms.

Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua have killed at least 58 people, injured dozens and displaced more than 4,000, authorities say.

A black honey produced in Tokyo’s Ogasawara Islands, which are registered as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, is recently found by researchers to be honeydew honey, a rarity in Japan.

Hundreds of thousands of voters across Thailand head out to cast early ballots, a week ahead the country's first general election since a military coup in 2014.

The massacre of Muslims at New Zealand mosques on Friday demonstrated the global reach of a white nationalist movement that preaches an imagined "European" ideal, rejects immigration and shares often vicious threats over the internet.

A far-right Australian senator had to be restrained by security officials yesterday after punching a young man protesting his offensive

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Kiwis have responded to the Christchurch mosque massacres with an outpouring of interfaith solidarity -- crowdfunding millions of dollars, donating halal food and even offering to accompany local Muslims now scared to walk the streets.

A gunman who killed 49 people at two New Zealand mosques live-streamed the attacks on Facebook for 17 minutes using an app designed for extreme sports enthusiasts, with copies still being shared on social media hours later.

China prevented a UN Security Council committee on Wednesday from blacklisting the head of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which said it attacked an Indian paramilitary convoy in disputed Kashmir.

In early 2019, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines will go to polls in elections that will either continue the populist/ authoritarian dynamics that has gripped the region, and the world, over the past few years or begin to halt it.

Long-term exposure to harmful smog particles increases the risk of diabetes, a new study in China has shown, providing evidence for a link between the country's air pollution and the disease.