Sri Lanka deployed troops and ordered a night-time curfew in a southern town to end violent clashes between two

Six suspected rebels and an air force commando were killed yesterday in a fierce gunfight in Indian-administered

A Japanese railway operator has issued a deep apology for the "tremendous nuisance" caused by a train departing 20 seconds early, surprising even a nation renowned for both punctuality and politeness.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the most popular leader in India, according to the US based Pew Research Center, in a survey that underscores the trust people have in him, even with the rumblings over a dip in economic growth.

A Singapore mass transit train bumped into another at a station yesterday injuring 28 people, authorities said. Transit

A senior Chinese diplomat will visit North Korea from tomorrow as a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping,

Washington's top diplomat says he would not yet push for sanctions against Myanmar over the Rohingya refugee crisis, but he calls for an independent investigation into "credible" allegations that soldiers are committing atrocities against the Muslim minority.

Human rights monitors urge Myanmar to withdraw a ban on protests in its largest city, Yangon, amid fears that free speech is under pressure under the government led by democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi.

China has for years appeared to be an unchanging target for South Korea’s cosmetics export realm, but for market pioneers, India is the way to go, according to an entrepreneur specialising in Indian business.

Among many shops in the Malaysian capital that Rohingyas use to send money to the two vast refugee camps in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in August prompted over 600,000 members of the ethnic group to flee Myanmar.

Human rights group Amnesty International pours scorn on a Myanmar military investigation into alleged atrocities against Rohingya Muslims, branding it a “whitewash” and calling for UN and independent investigators to be allowed into the country.

Widely criticised for her stance over Rohingya refugee crisis, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi now tells her fellow Southeast Asian leaders that her country will take back Rohingya refugees after it signs an agreement with its neighbour Bangladesh.

Myanmar's army releases a report denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.

A North Korean soldier was shot and injured by his own side yesterday while defecting to South Korea at the border

Angry parents accused Delhi authorities yesterday of "playing with children's health" as schools reopened despite a

China and Vietnam agreed yesterday to avoid conflicts in the hotly contested South China Sea, as a new pathway to dialogue on easing tensions was opened with other Southeast Asian nations.

A draft of the statement to be issued after a Southeast Asian summit makes no mention of the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state following a military crackdown that has been described by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing.

Mass graves containing at least 400 suspected Islamic State group victims have been found near the former jihadist bastion of Hawija in northern Iraq, the regional governor says.

North Korea said yesterday that US President Donald Trump's first trip to Asia showed he was a "destroyer" and he had begged

Papua New Guinea began dismantling a shuttered Australian-run immigration detention centre yesterday and warned it will use force