At least 16 people from Myanmar’s Rohingya minority have died after a storm capsized the boat they were traveling on to seek refuge in another country, officials and a recovery team member said Tuesday.

A South African paraglider has made the first legal flight off Mount Everest, an expedition organiser said yesterday, opening doors for “climb and fly” adventurers on the world’s highest mountain.

Pakistan’s government yesterday banned a planned protest march by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is demanding fresh elections as a political and economic crises deepens in the South Asian nation, officials said.

A leak of thousands of photos and official documents from China’s Xinjiang has shed new light on the violent methods used to enforce mass internment in the region, researchers said yesterday.

Leaders of Japan, India, Australia and the United States yesterday warned against attempts to “change the status quo by force” as concerns grow about whether China could invade self-ruled Taiwan.

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah announced on Tuesday that the federal cabinet had decided it would not allow the PTI to hold its planned long march to the capital, which is due to take place on May 25 (tomorrow).

Sri Lanka hiked petrol prices by 20%-24% on Tuesday and also increased diesel prices by 35%-38%, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.

The bodies of 14 people have been found washed up on a beach in Myanmar, police said yesterday, with a local rescue group saying some were Rohingya attempting to reach Malaysia.

Long queues snaked around gas stations in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital and its outskirts yesterday even though the island nation’s government was scrambling to deliver fuel supplies and douse any unrest as it battles a devastating economic crisis.

President Joe Biden vowed yesterday that US forces would defend Taiwan militarily if China attempted to take control of the self-ruled island by force, warning Beijing was already “flirting with danger”.

The bodies of 14 people have been found washed up on a beach in Myanmar, police told AFP on Monday, with a local rescue group saying some were Rohingya attempting to reach Malaysia.

Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, has said they must not forget other difficult situations in the world including the Rohingya crisis that need its attention and resources while focussing on the "catastrophic emergency" in Ukraine.

Women presenters on Afghanistan’s leading news channels went on air yesterday with their faces covered, a day after defying a Taliban order to conceal their appearance on television.

India’s Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy tonight (May 22, 2022) denied media reports claiming that the Archaeological Survey of India would be conducting an excavation at the iconic Qutub Minar complex Delhi.

PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday told the military to stick to its stated stance of being "neutral".

Bangladesh Education Minister Dipu Moni has said India needs to ensure “protecting and guaranteeing the fundamental rights of every citizen including minorities” if it wants to emerge as a great world economic power.

The Calcutta High Court has rejected the election petition of West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Alorani Sarkar, who lost last year’s assembly poll from Bangaon Dakshin constituency on the grounds that she has dual citizenship of Bangladesh and India and cannot declare herself as “Indian”, as the law of the country does not allow it.

Women presenters on Afghanistan's leading TV channels yesterday went on air without covering their faces, defying a Taliban order that they conceal their appearance to comply with the group's austere brand of Islam.

Thousands of people queued for cooking gas and petrol in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital yesterday and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis.

Pakistan’s new Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday he would like to pivot away from single-issue transactional relationship with the United States as he seeks to repair frayed ties with Washington.