The top bureaucrat at Japan's finance ministry quits following allegations he sexually harassed female reporters, saying he wanted to clear his name.

India launched fast-track courts and a tougher rape law that included the death penalty after a gruesome assault on a young woman shocked the country in 2012, but crime statistics indicate the situation has got worse, not better, since then.

China has a found a novel way to tackle its massive air pollution problem: Putting up a giant air purifier the size of an industrial

Demanding stringent laws and the death penalty for rapists, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal continues her indefinite hunger strike for the fourth day.

A Japanese firm is poised to carry out what it hailed as the world's first experiment to test for cancer using urine samples, which would

As India's rape epidemic gets worse by the year, critics have pointed fingers at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government for not

International investigators yesterday entered a Syrian town hit by an alleged chemical attack, after days of delay and warnings by

A bomb that exploded outside an Indian diplomatic post in southern Nepal caused damage and drew attention for being a rare attack on

Myanmar's president yesterday announced pardons for more than 8,500 prisoners, including three dozen jailed in political cases, as part

A special NIA court in Hyderabad acquits all the accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case in which nine people were killed.

More than 1,000 autistic children in Shanghai of China have been getting positive results from training that uses virtual reality technology to improve their perception of people and their surrounding environment.

Myanmar President Win Myint grants amnesty to more than 8,500 prisoners, reportedly including at least three dozen political prisoners.

The first school for the transgender community in Pakistan is launched at an event at the Alhamra Open Air Theatre of Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

Sri Lankan police yesterday arrested a leading dissident within President Maithripala Sirisena's party, deepening political tensions on the

Two Christians were killed in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southwestern Pakistan Sunday, officials said, the second such

South Korea's disgraced former president Park Geun-hye will not appeal her 24-year prison sentence for corruption, reports said

China has stepped up its campaign against foreign espionage with a website in Mandarin and English encouraging people to report

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's political crisis deepened yesterday after polls showed that suspected cronyism scandals have

As thousands of people hit the streets across the country to express outrage over the rapes in Kathua and Unnao, a group of 49

Eight men accused of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl is pleaded not guilty to the horrific crime that has sparked revulsion and brought thousands to India's streets in protest.