The jailing of two Reuters journalists shreds what remains of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's reputation as a rights champion,

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

The packets found from a south Kolkata locality contained medical waste and not 'decomposed remains of 14 babies and foetuses' as

The Prime Minister House on Friday released a list of luxury and surplus vehicles to be auctioned by the government. The auction will

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said his government would review all international agreements it inherited from the last

Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked that the media give his government three months before criticising its performance, DawnNewsTV reports.

A stranded vessel empty of crew and goods that was found in Myanmar's waters this week was being towed by a ship with 13 Indonesian nationals for a ship-breaking factory in Bangladesh before it became unmoored, the Myanmar Navy says.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, days after launching an austerity drive, is being criticised for using a helicopter to commute to work daily, from his residence in Bani Gala to the prime minister's Secretariat.

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is poised to stage another military parade amid new worries that diplomatic efforts on denuclearisation are stalling, though analysts say it is unclear whether it will showcase any of the country's largest ballistic missiles.

Bangladesh and Nepal have agreed to enhance trade and investment between the two countries as well as cooperate with each other for the development of the power sector.

China yesterday sharply rebuked US lawmakers who called on President Donald Trump's administration to slap sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the internment of a Muslim minority in the country's far-west Xinjiang region.

Days after cancelling a planned visit to North Korea by his top diplomat citing insufficient progress in denuclearisation talks, US President Donald Trump hailed his personal relationship North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday and said there was no reason to resume war games with South Korea.

China yesterday told Japan to "rein in its journalists" after Tokyo lodged a protest over Beijing blocking a Japanese reporter from covering a meeting between top diplomats from the two countries.

China appears poised to scrap its two-child policy, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would overhaul decades of controversial family-planning rules. The wide-ranging code would end a policy that has been enforced through fines but was also notorious for cases of forced abortions in the country.

Russia will next month hold its biggest war games in nearly four decades, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said yesterday, a massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies.

A Japanese rail company has defended a safety exercise that requires employees to sit beside tracks in tunnels as bullet trains speed by at 300 kilometres (186 miles) an hour.

North Korea's state-controlled newspaper yesterday accused the United States of "double-dealing" and "hatching a criminal plot" against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly cancelled a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Shinzo Abe yesterday confirmed he would run in his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election, putting him on track to become

A fire early yesterday at a hotel in China has left at least 18 people dead and 19 injured, according to state media. The blaze broke out

Six people have been killed by floodwaters in Taiwan, officials said yesterday, after days of heavy rain forced thousands to evacuate their