Twenty-seven Chinese officials have been penalised for the wrongful execution of a teenager, state news agency Xinhua says.

The first freely elected parliament in Myanmar for 50 years holds its opening session. Hundreds of new MPs, mostly from the National League for Democracy (NLD) but also some smaller parties, sworn and take their seats.

Japan's Economy Minister Akira Amari says he is resigning amid corruption allegations. But he denies personally receiving bribes from a construction company, as had been alleged by a Japanese magazine.

The $681m (£479m) deposited in the bank account of Malaysian PM Najib Razak by Saudi Arabia is to help him win the 2013 elections, a Saudi source says.

Police are searching for survivors after a boat capsized off the coast of Malaysia, killing at least 13 people, officials say.

North Korea says it has arrested a US student accused of committing a "hostile act" against the state. State news agency KCNA identifies him as University of Virginia student Otto Frederick Warmbier.

One of the citizens alleges that he was forcibly shaved by Tajik police.

The Bangladeshi community in Singapore has expressed shocked at the news that 27 Bangladeshi nationals who were working there had been arrested for supporting IS, al-Qaeda.

Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured when their bus plunged off a mountain road in Japan on its way to a ski resort, in the country's worst such

Police in Indonesia have identified four out of five of the Jakarta attackers, including two previously convicted militants.

Indonesian police spokesperson says an alert has been issued throughout the country following Islamist State attack on Jakarta.

A bus taking passengers to a ski resort in central Japan veers off a mountain road, killing 14 people and injuring 27.

A majority of Arab Muslim youths see the actions of extremists such as the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam's teachings, according to a new poll.

South Korea said yesterday that further US "strategic assets" might be deployed to the Korean peninsula, following a flyover by a US B-52 bomber in response

Beijing said yesterday it did not need to notify Vietnam about flights to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, after Hanoi complained to a UN aviation body

The United States and its two main military allies in Asia, South Korea and Japan, pledged a combined push to secure a comprehensive, hard-hitting international response to North Korea's latest nuclear test. The leaders of the three countries, who have long sought to project a united front against the North Korean nuclear threat, spoke by phone a day after Pyongyang's shock announcement that it had tested its first hydrogen bomb.

Eleven miners were found dead yesterday after a Chinese coal mine caved in, state media reported, the latest fatal industrial accident in the country where work safety standards are poorly enforced.

Expressing concern at the recent nuclear tests carried out by the North Korea, Bangladesh urges the country to refrain from any activity which can potentially escalate the situation.

Beijing has rejected a protest from Vietnam after a Chinese plane landed on a contested reef in the South China Sea, saying the operation took place within Chinese territory.

A huge fire rips through a luxury Dubai hotel Thursday night, injuring 16 people, just a few hours before the emirate celebrated the new year with a spectacular fireworks display nearby.