The leaders of China and Japan are expected to pay reciprocal visits as relations between their countries warm, the Japanese foreign

An Air China flight was diverted yesterday after a male passenger brandishing a fountain pen held a crew member hostage, aviation authorities said.

An Air China flight bound for Beijing makes an unscheduled landing in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou after a passenger threatened a flight attendant with a fountain pen, the country's civil aviation authority says.

Pakistan's Supreme Court disqualified deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life, Dawn News TV reports.

A local singer is shot dead during a festive ceremony in Kanga village near Larkana of Pakistan.

A violent storm destroys two ancient pillars at the entryways to the Taj Mahal, an official says, underscoring the fragility of the centuries-old marble monument to love.

A South Korean farmer killed and cooked a neighbour's barking dog before inviting its unsuspecting owner to join him for a dog-meat dinner, police say in a case that has sparked online outrage.

President Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka, accepts the resignation letters tendered by 15 SLFP ministers, including six Cabinet members, and the Deputy Speaker, who voted for the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last week.

Malaysians will go to the polls next month, officials announced yesterday, with the long-ruling and scandal-tainted ruling coalition

Malaysia will hold a general election on May 9, the country's Election Commission (EC) says, in what could be the toughest test of the ruling-coalition's 61-year grip on power.

Former President Lee Myung-bak was indicted on bribery, embezzlement and other charges yesterday, becoming the latest South Korean

Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull marked an unwanted milestone yesterday by losing his 30th straight opinion poll -- a

Fujifilm Corp. announced on its website that it will end sales of black-and-white film and photographic printing paper.

Giving a major boost to connectivity, India and Nepal yesterday agreed to develop inland waterways between them connecting Nepal to

India has set in motion the process to acquire a fleet of around 110 fighter jets in what is billed to be one of the world's biggest

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan left prison yesterday after being granted bail so he can contest a five-year jail sentence imposed for

Amit Shah, President of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has sparked a row by likening the attempts of opposition parties to come

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says that "genocide" was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too.

China warned yesterday it would fight back "at any cost" with fresh trade measures if the United States continues on its path of

Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the dissolution of parliament yesterday, paving the way for a general election