South Korea's disgraced former president Park Geun-hye is jailed for 24 years for corruption, closing out a dramatic fall from grace for the country's first woman leader who became a figure of public fury and ridicule.

Malaysian authorities yesterday deregistered the party of veteran former leader Mahathir Mohamad, who is trying to unseat scandal-hit

The wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer who has embarked on a 100-kilometre (60-mile) march to highlight his plight

The Taliban has vowed to "take serious revenge" after an Afghan airstrike in an area controlled by the militant group killed or

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe defeated a no-confidence motion in parliament late Wednesday but political

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping during talks in Beijing last week that he agreed to return to six-

The Philippines is closing its best-known holiday island Boracay to tourists for up to six months over concerns that the once idyllic

Thai authorities have seized a massive methamphetamine haul worth almost $38 million near the Laotian border, officials said yesterday, highlighting the kingdom's role as a pipeline for drugs flooding through Southeast Asia. Early yesterday authorities found some 788 kilogrammes of crystal meth -- a high-purity form of the stimulant -- in an abandoned pick-up truck in northern Chiang Rai province.

China appreciates North Korea's "important efforts" to ease tension on the Korean peninsula, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told the North's foreign minister yesterday, hours after he called on all sides to stay focused on talks.

Thailand makes one of its largest crystal methamphetamine busts, seizing 700 million baht ($22.42 million) worth of the drug, police say, as the United Nations warns Southeast Asia is being flooded with illegal drugs from the "Golden Triangle" region.

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials say.

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-enters the earth’s atmosphere and burns up over the middle of the South Pacific, the Chinese space authority says.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday attended the first concert in Pyongyang for over a decade by South Korean entertainers, including a K-pop girlband, the latest gesture of reconciliation before a rare inter-Korean summit.

A Nepali Sherpa is hoping to summit Mount Everest for a record-breaking 22nd time next month, during the busy climbing season that each year sees hundreds of climbers reach the top of the world.

India's most popular tourist attraction, the Taj Mahal, announces that visits will be capped at three hours.

A four-story rickety hotel building collapses in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring another three, police says.

A young farmer from India's lowest Dalit community has been beaten to death for owning a horse, which is seen as a symbol of power and wealth,

India and Pakistan have agreed to resolve the issue of recent incidents of harassment of diplomats and non-diplomatic staff at their

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says she has pined for her home in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, even as she recalled

A fire on board a bus in western Thailand kills 20 migrant workers from Myanmar, police says.