New United States President Donald Trump must be “fantastically” happy with a “wonderful” Asean because it is the only “great” regional organisation that has no military might and has not been at war. The problem is, he might not know about the grouping at all.

If you have citizenship in Singapore, Japan and Malaysia, you have a great deal of travelling power. Singaporean passports have been ranked the most powerful passports in Asia and world's second-most "powerful" passport, according to a worldwide ranking for passports.

A car ploughed into pedestrians on a popular shopping strip in the heart of Australia's second-largest city yesterday, killing four people

North Korea is preparing to test new rockets, a report said yesterday, after its leader Kim Jong-Un said the country was in the final stages

Efforts to form a "grand secular alliance" in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh went into top gear yesterday with the Congress

A mother who murdered her own daughter and set her alight for marrying the man of her choice has been sentenced

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday hailed the rise of multi-polarity in Asia, but went on to say that it was not unusual for powerful neighbours to have their differences.

Former chief justice MM Ruhul Amin dies of heart diseases at a hospital in Singapore. He was 74.

A cargo plane attempting to land in thick fog yesterday crashed into a village near Kyrgyzstan's main airport and killed at least 37

The death toll from a boat accident in eastern India rose to 26 yesterday, a senior official said, warning of more

Electronic waste is rising sharply across Asia as higher incomes allow hundreds of millions of people to buy

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to impose martial rule to prosecute his deadly war on drugs,

It is Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spinning the "charkha" - not Mahatma Gandhi - on the 2017 calendar and

Prospective US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson better watch his mouth, angry Chinese media said yesterday, warning

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday offered support for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's

China offered a muted response yesterday after Donald Trump's secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson warned the US

A paramilitary soldier from one of India's elite security units shot dead four of his senior officers yesterday in an apparent row over

A Pakistani court yesterday stayed the execution of a schizophrenic man, his lawyers said, days before he was set to

Nepal fired the head of its earthquake reconstruction agency and named his predecessor to the job in a game of

A fifth Pakistani rights activist has gone missing, his colleagues said yesterday, as the United Nations raised