China and Russia denounced the use of "blackmail" Friday in thinly-veiled rebukes of President Donald Trump, highlighting the chasm between the US and its rivals on issues ranging from trade to the war in Syria.

The Rohingya issue should not be complicated, expanded or "internationalised", China's top diplomat said, as the United Nations prepares to set up a body to prepare evidence of human rights abuses in Myanmar.

A man whose brutal knife attack left nine schoolchildren dead and injured 12 others was executed in China yesterday. Zhao Zewei was

The North Korean underground nuclear bomb test last year set off a series of aftershocks over a period of eight months, a study has found.

China demanded the United States "dispel obstacles" to improving military ties and stop slandering it, amid growing tensions over trade, Taiwan, the South China Sea and US President Donald Trump's claims of China meddling in the upcoming US election.

A passenger was kicked off an Indian flight after he tried to access the cockpit to charge his phone, the airline said yesterday.

India's Supreme Court yesterday agreed to live-streaming and video recording of court proceedings.

The luxury-loving wife of Malaysia's former prime minister yesterday faced a marathon questioning session by investigators probing

India's Supreme Court yesterday upheld the validity of a controversial biometric identity system, but flagged privacy concerns and

Outgoing Maldivian strongman Abdulla Yameen is delaying freeing high-profile political prisoners despite calls by his successor for

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a longtime hardliner on North Korea, said Tuesday he was willing to meet Kim Jong Un after the

A record-high number of job-seekers have given up on finding a job, amid a feeble employment market and slowing economic growth, government data shows.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in pushes back against widespread skepticism about the sincerity of Kim Jong Un’s vows to give up his nuclear bombs.

An Indonesian teenager survived seven weeks adrift at sea after his tiny fishing trap lost its moorings and ended up some 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) away in waters near the Pacific island of Guam, his family said yesterday.

Myanmar's powerful army chief says the United Nations has no right to interfere in his country's sovereignty, a week after UN investigators called for him and other top generals to be prosecuted for "genocide" against the Rohingya.

Charles Kao, a Nobel Prize winner dubbed the "father of fiber optics", dies at 84, according to Hong Kong media.

Still championing his cause for a third national car project, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad rubbishes claims that Proton was a failure.

Polling booths in the Maldives closed yesterday after voting hours were extended in a controversial election marred by police raids on the opposition and allegations of rigging in favour of strongman president Abdulla Yameen.

SoftBank Corp. in Japan has mistakenly deleted about 10.3 million emails that were supposed to be sent to about 4.36 million users of its mobile phones, the carrier announces.

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