Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs yesterday scrabbled through the mud to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18.

Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors yesterday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday denounced the caning of two women convicted of having lesbian sex in violation of strict Islamic laws, after the punishment sparked a storm of criticism.

Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with another 75 missing, many of them children, the Red Cross said

Strongman Hun Sen was formally installed as Cambodia's prime minister for a new term yesterday, after securing all 125 seats in an

Nauru's president has demanded China apologise for a top diplomat's "crazy" behaviour at the Pacific Islands Forum and lashed out at Beijing's "arrogant" presence in the region.

Some 10,000 people swarm a well-known square in the Thai capital as the young Thai football team who were dramatically rescued from a flooded cave in July attended a formal thank-you dinner presided by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Japan's Kansai airport will reopen partially, the government says, after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland.

Japan acknowledges for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.

Google unveils a new search experience making it easier for job seekers in three countries of South Asia, including Bangladesh, to find employment opportunities from popular job listing websites, online classifieds and companies.

A powerful typhoon kills 10 people in western Japan and an airport company starts to transfer some 3,000 stranded passengers by boats from a flooded airport, the government says, as more than a million homes were without power.

Malaysian immigration department has detained more than 30,000 undocumented migrants, including an estimated 7,000 Bangladeshis, since January this year.

Without Malaysian rubber, the world's population growth would spiral out of control, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in a light vein when launching the 9th International Rubber Glove Conference and Exhibition 2018.

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Dr Arifur Rehman Alvi is elected as the 13th President of Pakistan, according to provisional results.

The wife of one of two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar makes an emotional appeal to Aung San Suu Kyi to free her husband for the sake of their young daughter, as the leader comes under increasing criticism for her silence on the case.

The party cadre adores him for being among the individuals who founded the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) with the country’s popular cricketer as its head and who has never stopped dreaming that one day his leader would become prime minister.

Polling is taking place at the National Assembly and four provincial legislatures to elect the 13th president of Pakistan.

Eighty-three civil society organisations in Myanmar demand immediate and unconditional release two Reuters journalists jailed on “politically motivated charges”.

Asia's growing appetite for meat and seafood over the next three decades will cause huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions and antibiotics used in foods, researchers say.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday offered another $60 billion in financing for Africa and wrote off some debt for poorer African