Myanmar will drop charges against dozens of ethnic minority protesters who demonstrated against a statue of independence hero General Aung San and will hold talks with them, state media says.

Despite good relations between Bangladesh and Bhutan, the bilateral trade volume is relatively small and limited to few goods.

At least 12 students were injured in an explosion at a school in Indian-controlled Kashmir yesterday, police said, though the cause of the

The Maldivian government yesterday urged its citizens to support its anti-corruption drive after it launched a website to help trace

Ethnic Uighurs launch a global campaign to press China for video proof that their missing relatives are alive, turning the tables on Beijing's use of video to counter claims that a renowned Uighur had died in custody.

Thailand's Election Commission says it will ask the constitutional court to dissolve a party that put forward a princess as a prime ministerial candidate, days after the king rebuked the move in a stern royal command.

The Thai king's sister, disqualified this week by the country's Election Commission from running for prime minister, apologizes for causing "problems" for the Thai people ahead of next month's election, the country’s first since a 2014 coup.

Japan said yesterday it had lodged a complaint with South Korea and after a Korean lawmaker said the Japanese emperor should apologise to "comfort women" forced to serve in Japanese military brothels in World War Two.

Myanmar police have arrested a French national in the capital, Naypyitaw, police and France's embassy said yesterday, after the man

Acting US defence secretary Patrick Shanahan arrived in Afghanistan yesterday and said it was important the Afghan government is

The agreement for a second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un was a "remarkable breakthrough" for peace negotiations on

Thailand's junta chief yesterday dismissed rumours of an impending coup as "fake news", as speculation ricocheted across a kingdom

China yesterday hit back at Turkish criticism over its treatment of Uighurs and denied Ankara's claim that a renowned poet from the

At least 99 people have died and scores have been hospitalised in northern India after drinking toxic alcohol, triggering a crackdown

Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak's trial over a massive financial scandal that contributed to his government's downfall was

Thailand's Election Commission disqualifies the sister of the king from running for prime minister, ending a stunning, short-lived candidacy for a populist party after King Maha Vajiralongkorn called the bid "inappropriate".

A French tourist has been arrested for flying a drone near Myanmar's parliament in the capital Naypyidaw, the French embassy and local police confirms, under a law that could see him imprisoned for up to three years.

The wedding dinner is being prepared for about 100 guests. But the police knocked on the door as the bride was an 11-year-old girl who was about to be married off to a man 10 years older than her.

The Thai Raksa Chart party says it will obey a command from the king blocking the candidacy of Princess Ubolratana for prime minister, in a dramatic reversal only a day after putting her forward for the position.

Fifteen people were killed in China on the night of the Lunar New Year in two family tragedies, after one man started a fire and another went on a knife rampage.