High temperatures and strong winds have fuelled large grass and bushfires in Australia, officials said yesterday, reducing dozens of

China yesterday elevated the status of its current foreign minister and selected a new defence minister. National People's Congress

North Korea is in talks with the US and Sweden to release three jailed Americans, reports said, as diplomatic activities intensified ahead

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his popularity plunging amid a cronyism scandal, took responsibility yesterday for a loss of trust in

Gunmen ambushed and shot dead two members of a polio monitoring team in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the

Four people were killed and 19 feared trapped by a major hotel fire in the Philippine capital Manila yesterday, with

Five members of a single family were killed yesterday when a mortar bomb fired by Pakistani soldiers landed on their

A majority of Japanese believe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bears some responsibility for altered documents at the centre

Sri Lanka's president yesterday announced he is lifting a nationwide state of emergency imposed 12 days ago to quell

India's main opposition party Congress yesterday said India should not be seen as “indifferent or partisan” and must

North Korean officials wrapped up three days of talks with Swedish counterparts with no indication their efforts

Electronic voting machines, first introduced in state elections two decades ago, should be dumped and India should

Maldivian authorities arrested more than 140 activists who defied a ban on rallies and demonstrated against a state

China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term yesterday and elevated his

A total of 25 victims, including 14 Bangladeshis, who died in the US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crash in Kathmandu of Nepal are identified.

A joint-team of experts will decide the place where the black box of the crashed US-Bangla aircraft will be decoded, the chief of Nepalese investigation team says.

Four days after the US-Bangla aircraft crash, the House of Representatives in Nepal endorses a condolence motion in remembrance of the deceased.

Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a "model" village for ethnic Rakhine migrants shuttled north to repopulate an area once dominated by Rohingya Muslims.

Three Bangladeshi survivors of the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash have returned home, leaving behind the languished land of Nepal that snapped their life with pain of loss and trauma. And, one of them does not even know that her child and husband have left the land of the living.

Families of the victims of US-Bangla Airline Flight 211, which crashed while trying to land at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday, are unlikely to receive a reasonable amount of compensation due to delays by Nepal and Bangladesh in signing the Montreal Convention 1999.