Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned home in the early hours of Saturday after fleeing the country in July, a senior security official said.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka’s deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home early today, a top defence official told AFP yesterday.

A Myanmar junta court yesterday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail “with hard labour”, for electoral fraud in the 2020 polls that her party won in a landslide, a source said.

A suicide bomber struck one of the biggest mosques in western Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 18 people, including an influential imam who earlier this year called for those who commit “the smallest act” against the government to be beheaded.

India debuted its first locally made aircraft carrier yesterday, a milestone in government efforts to reduce its dependence on foreign arms and counter China’s growing military assertiveness in the region.

The devastating floods in Pakistan will place huge strains on efforts to get food into neighbouring Afghanistan to relieve its catastrophic humanitarian crisis, the United Nations warned yesterday.

A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 18 people including a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric in what authorities said was an attack.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (September 2, 2022) commissioned the country’s first locally-built naval aircraft carrier putting India in a select league of countries with domestic capability to develop such large vessels.

Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to return to the island nation some time on Friday, after he fled anti-government protests in July, a spokesman from the Department of Information confirmed to The Straits Times.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of electoral fraud and sentenced her to three years in jail with hard labour, a source familiar with the proceedings said.

China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.

Around 16 million people in the Chinese city of Chengdu will be effectively under lockdown from yesterday as authorities race to snuff out a new Covid-19 outbreak.

Taiwanese soldiers on a tiny islet just off China’s mainland yesterday shot down an unidentified commercial drone as a local tycoon vowed to

Bankrupt Sri Lanka yesterday agreed a conditional $2.9 billion bailout with International Monetary Fund negotiators, as the island nation seeks to overcome a bruising economic crisis that saw its president flee the country.

On 2nd September 1945, at Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square, President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence proclaiming the birth of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (now the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam).

Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, was convicted of corruption on Thursday, just over a week after her husband was jailed after Malaysia's highest court affirmed his corruption conviction.

Taiwan's military shot down for the first time an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast on Thursday, after the government vowed to take tough new measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions.

Sri Lanka has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of about $2.9 billion, the global lender said on Thursday, as the country seeks a way out its worst economic crisis in decades.

China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.

Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was given an additional week to answer contempt of court charges brought against him for criticising a magistrate,