A woman from Laung Don village flees her house when Myanmar soldiers came into the village, leaving behind her sister who had just given birth and her newborn baby.

China has opened a strategic highway in Tibet to the Nepal border which could be used for civilian and defence purposes, a move that

Pakistanis began casting votes yesterday for the parliamentary seat vacated by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,

Detested in Myanmar, Rohingyas desperately seeking sanctuary will get a new reminder today of just how unloved

Tributes poured in yesterday for late Indian war hero Marshal Arjan Singh, who rose to prominence during World War II

US President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart have pledged "stronger pressure" on Pyongyang, Seoul said yesterday, after North Korea defied tough new sanctions with a missile test and said it wanted to match American nuclear strength.

The Philippine military said yesterday it had captured the command centre of Islamic State group supporters who

BJP has suspended a leader of its Assam state executive committee belonging to the minority community for voicing

China's ambassador to Washington on Friday called on the United States to refrain from making threats over North

A new Pakistani political party controlled by an Islamist with a $10 million US bounty on his head is backing a

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party is facing its first major political challenge in a by-election

Philippine President Duterte may declare nationwide martial law if threatened protests by communists and other leftists

A Pakistani Christian man has been sentenced to death for blasphemy after he sent a Muslim friend a poem on

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal from former prime minister Nawaz Sharif against his disqualification

A North Korean state agency yesterday threatened to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and

A feather from one of the most elusive birds in the world has been found in South Australia, the first proof in more than a century that

The world's oldest captive giant panda has died at the ripe old age of 37 -- more than 100 in human years -- her handlers in China said

Timor Leste, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have the highest rates of undernourishment in Asia, according to the Asian Development Bank.

The UN Security Council has unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea, slapping a ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of oil products to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and largest nuclear test.

Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution urging the United Nations and the international community to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Myanmar government to take back Rohingya people, ensure their safe accommodation and give citizenship rights.