Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China

Indonesia and India yesterday pledged to step up defence and maritime cooperation, with plans to develop a strategic Indonesian

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he wants to develop an island on a cluster of rocks previously disputed with

Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada presents the first federal budget for the fiscal year 2018-19 in Parliament on Tuesday. The Rs 1.31 trillion fiscal plan focuses on energy, infrastructure and proposes a string of reforms in social and agriculture sectors.

A senior North Korean official is headed to New York to discuss an upcoming summit, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, the latest indication that an on-again-off-again meeting between Trump and North Korea's leader may go ahead next month.

Storms and lightning across a swathe of northern India kills at least 47 people, officials say, the latest deaths from freak weather that has battered the country this month.

A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK says, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with US President Donald Trump is going ahead.

Iran's president will attend a summit with his Chinese and Russian counterparts next month, officials in Beijing said yesterday, as they try to salvage the nuclear deal thrown into upheaval by Donald Trump.

China has voiced "strong dissatisfaction" after two US warships sailed by an island claimed by Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, adding to simmering tensions in the strategic waterway.

Myanmar President U Win Myint pardons 58 displaced Rohingyas who are detained while attempting to re-enter the country from Bangladesh.

Authorities in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir have initiated the process of constructing over 5,500 underground bunkers and 200

More than two thousand volunteers hit the beach on an outlying island of Hong Kong for a mass rubbish clean up yesterday as

Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan's party yesterday vowed to oust the country's "corrupt" rulers, as the nuclear-

Pakistan says it will hold parliamentary and provincial assembly elections on July 25.

The local government of a Kurdish province in northern Iraq says seven inmates die of asphyxia in a fire started as part of a prison riot instigated to cover a foiled breakout attempt.

Pakistan's army has summoned the ex-head of the intelligence agency, accusing him of violating the military code of conduct over a

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed four years in office yesterday, his government received a massive thumbs up in a mega

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina receives 'Doctor of Literature (DLitt)' degree from Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol in Paschim Bardhaman district in West Bengal.

US President Donald Trump's cancellation of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatens further strain on US-China ties amid a trade dispute that had been intertwined with Beijing's pressure on isolated Pyongyang.

An Indian woman who was bitten by a snake in her sleep and unknowingly breastfed poisoned milk to her daughter has died along with the child, police say.