Asian countries contribute almost 25% of UN budget, with Japan being the highest contributor from the region, followed by China, Australia, South Korea and India.

Bali's international airport opened for business yesterday after a nearly three-day shutdown, as towering columns of

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said yesterday his country had achieved full nuclear statehood after what he said was the successful test of a new missile capable of striking anywhere in the United States.

SWIFT, the global messaging system used to move trillions of dollars each day, warns banks that the threat of digital heists is on the rise as hackers use increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques to launch new attacks.

Those born in the 1990s are emerging as the new engine of consumption in China, said a new McKinsey survey.

A septic tank was the epicentre of a massive explosion that rocked one of China's largest port cities at the weekend,

Indian authorities have cleared beggars off the streets and brought in 10,000 extra security forces for Ivanka Trump's

China yesterday congratulated Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa but denied it played any part in his

India's Supreme Court yesterday started hearing a case that prosecutors say shows how Islamic State sympathisers

Indonesia closed the airport on the tourist island of Bali yesterday and ordered 100,000 residents living near a

Myanmar’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will soon visit Beijing, state media said on Monday, as the southeast Asian nation appears to draw closer to its northern neighbour, China, amid global criticism over an exodus of Rohingya refugees.

In this second part video of a documentary series, Malaysian journalists go undercover to experience the desperate living conditions of migrant workers mostly from Bangladesh in Malaysia. It shows how an international human trafficking ring uses private colleges in Malaysia to exploit young Bangladeshis.

Science could soon unleash a most incongruous army in the war against disease - one composed of filthy flies.

A powerful explosion hit China's major port city of Ningbo yesterday, killing at least two people, injuring more than

Millions of Nepalis voted yesterday to choose a new parliament and 7 state assemblies more than a decade after

Thousands more protesters massed in Pakistan's major cities yesterday after attempts to disperse an Islamist rally in

As more victims step out to tell of sexual harassment in the United States and Europe, The Straits Times Asian bureaus look at how the region perceives this rarely publicly-discussed issue.

A former vice-minister of health in China dismissed the possibility of clinical trials involving a human head transplant, adding that an experiment done in China had severely violated ethical rules.

Pakistan's finance minister Ishaq Dar has gone on indefinite medical leave amid an ongoing corruption scandal, piling more pressure on

India yesterday said it was outraged at Pakistan's release of an Islamist leader accused of organising the 2008 deadly