Thailand makes one of its largest crystal methamphetamine busts, seizing 700 million baht ($22.42 million) worth of the drug, police say, as the United Nations warns Southeast Asia is being flooded with illegal drugs from the "Golden Triangle" region.

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials say.

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-enters the earth’s atmosphere and burns up over the middle of the South Pacific, the Chinese space authority says.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday attended the first concert in Pyongyang for over a decade by South Korean entertainers, including a K-pop girlband, the latest gesture of reconciliation before a rare inter-Korean summit.

A Nepali Sherpa is hoping to summit Mount Everest for a record-breaking 22nd time next month, during the busy climbing season that each year sees hundreds of climbers reach the top of the world.

India's most popular tourist attraction, the Taj Mahal, announces that visits will be capped at three hours.

A four-story rickety hotel building collapses in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring another three, police says.

A young farmer from India's lowest Dalit community has been beaten to death for owning a horse, which is seen as a symbol of power and wealth,

India and Pakistan have agreed to resolve the issue of recent incidents of harassment of diplomats and non-diplomatic staff at their

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says she has pined for her home in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, even as she recalled

A fire on board a bus in western Thailand kills 20 migrant workers from Myanmar, police says.

Malaysia’s central bank says it detected and foiled an attempted cyber attack and efforts to transfer funds without authorisation using falsified SWIFT messages.

Thanks no doubt to the fact that Easter falls during the same period as this year's cherry blossom season, Tokyo has topped a list of the most popular Easter destinations among Asia-Pacific travelers for 2018.

Myanmar's parliament yesterday elected a staunch ally of Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's new president, allowing her to maintain a

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday reduced the responsibilities of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as a power

New Zealand said yesterday it would like to expel Russian spies in retaliation for allegedly poisoning an ex-agent in Britain -- only it

A train believed to be carrying a senior North Korean delegation left the Chinese capital yesterday following a dramatic whirlwind visit

As the first transgender news anchor in Pakistan, Marvia Malik is proud to be at the forefront of changing attitudes in her country but she says there is a long way to go.

Bangladesh is not expecting much help from foreign donors as it forges ahead with plans to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an uninhabited island, an undertaking that does not yet have a timeline, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, says in an interview.

North Korea yesterday called on the United States to understand its position and adopt a “serious attitude” to contribute to