Two forklift drivers were charged in Singapore yesterday with accepting Sg$1 (72 US cent) bribes and are facing fines of up to Sg$100,000 and jail time, highlighting the city-state's tough anti-corruption stance.

Najib Tun Razak has been arrested by graft investigators over the “tampering” of the 1MDB final audit report.

It is okay for leaders to backtrack from their initial promises because even angels make mistakes some times, says the Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad amidst criticisms over several “u-turns” in government policies lately.

A court in Myanmar's restive Kachin state has jailed three activists for defaming the military, their lawyer said yesterday, as campaigners

Thirteen people were killed yesterday when a passenger bus fell 70 metres down a gorge in southern Indian-administered Kashmir,

A Myanmar court will hear the appeal later this month of two Reuters journalists jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, a

Chinese telecom giant Huawei's chief financial officer faces US fraud charges related to sanctions-breaking business dealings with

A Mexican model and volunteer was crowned Miss World at a glitzy event on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan yesterday.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer faces US accusations that she covered up her company's links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions, a Canadian prosecutor says.

Chinese state-run media yesterday condemned the arrest in Canada of a top executive of telecoms giant Huawei on a US extradition request as a "despicable rogue's approach" to contain Chinese high-tech ambitions.

India is firmly on track to meet its target on power generation from non-fossil sources and reduce greenhouse gases well ahead of the deadline, Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Monday at a climate summit in Poland.

A total of 4,122 criminal cases are pending against the present and former members of parliament and state legislatures across India,

India's environmental watchdog has slapped New Delhi's government with a $3.5 million fine for failing to enforce rules to reduce smog

Sri Lanka's toppled premier yesterday likened the president to Hitler as he demanded to be reinstated, almost six weeks into a

Pakistan's foreign ministry said yesterday that US President Donald Trump has written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan seeking

At least two persons -- a police inspector and a youth -- were killed yesterday as violence broke out in a town on northern Indian state

A court in Sri Lanka yesterday suspended Mahinda Rajapaksa's powers as prime minister and ruled his disputed cabinet could not

Thailand’s Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai made news in early November when he announced that he saw no need for foreign observers to monitor the country’s general elections which are expected to take place between February and May of 2019.

While the audience shared the intensity with which many of his contemporaries and admirers expressed their admiration for the music legend Salil Chowdhury on his 93rd birth anniversary, there was a depressing footnote when his daughter, Antara, confessed that it had become quite difficult to arrange a celebration even on a small scale.

The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) will be reducing the number of public announcements it will make at its terminals, in its efforts to join the global "silent airport" movement.