North Korea is only months away from obtaining the capability to hit US territory with a nuclear weapon and must be disarmed, a US envoy said yesterday, dismissing Pyonyang's diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a "charm offensive" that fooled no one.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck just to the northeast of the city of Hualien in Taiwan tonight, the US Geological Survey says, causing a hotel to collapse and forcing the closure of a nearby highway, the government says.

Unidentified gunmen yesterday fired multiple shots at two Chinese nationals and injured one of them critically in a targeted attack in a

North Korea's ceremonial leader will make an unprecedented visit to South Korea this week, officials said yesterday, as hopes grow for

A Pashto theatre actress was shot dead by three gunmen after she refused to go with them for a private event in Pakistan's Khyber

Armed officers patrol a train station where television screens and giant posters warn of the threat from militants. Nearby, fake gunmen

China has criticised suggestions by the US government that it could be a potential nuclear adversary, accusing the Trump

North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a

Maldivian authorities yesterday announced an indefinite postponement of parliament as President Abdulla Yameen's regime resisted

India-Asean trade relations have been growing steadily, with Asean being India’s fourth largest trading partner. Both sides have set a target of at least US$200 billion in two-way trade by 2022 compared to US$ 71 billion in 2016-17.

Myanmar’s government has denied a report by The Associated Press documenting at least five mass graves containing Rohingya Muslim civilians killed by the military with help from Buddhist neighbors, saying that only “terrorists” were killed and they were “carefully buried.”

Worried about militants sneaking into a restive Chinese region from war-torn Afghanistan, Beijing is in talks with Kabul over the

A minivan ploughed into pedestrians on a sidewalk in downtown Shanghai on Friday, sending 18 people to hospitals.

Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday told British Prime Minister Theresa May that their countries should take trade ties to "a new

Eleven people were killed in northern Japan after fire broke out at a home for elderly people with financial difficulties, police said

A US special envoy said yesterday all options remain on the table for solving the nuclear standoff with North Korea but that he did not

Hong Kong yesterday voted to ban ivory sales in a landmark move to end the infamous trade in the city. MPs

Five Thai teens and a 20-year-old were yesterday sentenced to between nearly 3.5 and 11.5 years in prison for setting

Sri Lanka is to set up special courts to investigate charges of corruption amounting to billions of dollars under former

North Korea's nuclear program has made strides in recent months but the country has not yet demonstrated all the