China yesterday said it will ban exports of some petroleum products to North Korea, as well as imports of textiles

For the second year in a row, there may be no Saarc summit. India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan had pulled out of

China's earthquake administration says it has detected a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in North Korea that is a "suspected explosion", raising fears the isolated state had conducted another nuclear bomb test weeks after its last one.

Facing worldwide outrage over ethnic violence that forced over four lakhs of Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh, Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi says her country is willing to start the verification process “any time” to take back some of the Rohingya refugees.

Amnesty International says new satellite images and videos taken as recently as Friday afternoon in Myanmar’s Rakhine state show smoke rising from Rohingya Muslim villages, contradicting Aung San Suu Kyi’s claims that military operations there have ended.

The Myanmar government is guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people and other Muslim minorities, according to the international Permanent Peoples' Tribunal.

"Islamophobic" terms used by Chinese internet users to stigmatize Muslims have been blocked by authorities to prevent bias against

US President Donald Trump is urging the United Nations Security Council to take "strong and swift action" to bring Myanmar's Rohingya crisis to an end, US Vice President Mike Pence says.

A woman from Laung Don village flees her house when Myanmar soldiers came into the village, leaving behind her sister who had just given birth and her newborn baby.

China has opened a strategic highway in Tibet to the Nepal border which could be used for civilian and defence purposes, a move that

Tributes poured in yesterday for late Indian war hero Marshal Arjan Singh, who rose to prominence during World War II

US President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart have pledged "stronger pressure" on Pyongyang, Seoul said yesterday, after North Korea defied tough new sanctions with a missile test and said it wanted to match American nuclear strength.

The Philippine military said yesterday it had captured the command centre of Islamic State group supporters who

BJP has suspended a leader of its Assam state executive committee belonging to the minority community for voicing

Pakistanis began casting votes yesterday for the parliamentary seat vacated by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,

Detested in Myanmar, Rohingyas desperately seeking sanctuary will get a new reminder today of just how unloved

China's ambassador to Washington on Friday called on the United States to refrain from making threats over North

A new Pakistani political party controlled by an Islamist with a $10 million US bounty on his head is backing a

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party is facing its first major political challenge in a by-election

Philippine President Duterte may declare nationwide martial law if threatened protests by communists and other leftists