The Tokyo metropolitan government intends to take the initiative in introducing the new technologies of “solar roads” that collect energy from the sun via solar panels installed beneath the surface of roads and “power-generating floors” that generate electricity by utilizing the vibrations created by people walking, according to sources.

A knife attack on a Japanese bullet express train near Tokyo left one passenger dead and two others injured, police say, as they arrested a suspect who was on top of a man lying unconscious.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday opened a regional security summit attended by Russia and Iran with boasts of the bloc's "unity",

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has accepted the resignation of the central bank governor, the latest in a string of

A Pakistani journalist and rights activist who openly criticised the military and its alleged meddling in politics was freed early yesterday,

The World Bank (WB) has asked Pakistan to stop pursuing the Kishanganga dam dispute in the International Court of Arbitration (ICA)

Pakistan's anti-corruption agency has approved an inquiry into former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and his predecessor

A Pakistani journalist and rights activist who openly criticised the military and its alleged meddling in politics is freed early today, several hours after being abducted.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte defends his kiss on the lips of a married Filipino woman in South Korea, and says he will resign if enough women are offended and sign a petition calling for him to step down.

The Capella Hotel on Sentosa will host next Tuesday's summit between United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Eleven people were killed and nine injured yesterday in an explosion at an iron-ore mine in northeast China's Liaoning province, state

Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said yesterday he was returning a year's salary after his ministry scrubbed public documents related to

China lashed out at the United States yesterday after Washington marked the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen protests by urging

An Indian Air Force aircraft carrying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to South Africa went incommunicado for fourteen minutes

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte draws condemnation after kissing a Filipino woman onstage during his visit to South Korea, prompting outraged activists to call it "disgusting".

A motorcycle suicide bomber kills at least eight people near a gathering of Muslim clerics in the Afghan capital after they had issued a fatwa against suicide bombings, officials say, in the latest in a series of attacks to hit Kabul.

A Filipino man dies a “hero” days after he was attacked by two men who he confronted trying to defend two women in Slovakia.

Facebook apologises the deletion of the post from a feminist group

India yesterday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Long Range Ballistic Missile Agni-5, which has a strike

India and Pakistan exchanged fire across the Kashmir border yesterday, officials said, killing two guards and ending a days-old