Asia is home to more Fortune Global 500 companies than any other continent, and Beijing hosts more global companies, the most of any city in the world.

Japan's defence minister Tomomi Inada will resign over an alleged coverup involving military documents, local media reported yesterday,

Indonesia has 45 million active users of Instagram in a month, making the country the biggest market in Asia Pacific.

China has warned India it is willing to defend territory “at all costs” and it should not harbour any “unrealistic illusions” over a border dispute that threatens to boil over into an open conflict.

The latest national campaign to protect intellectual property rights in China will focus on online movies, TV shows and news articles, a top copyright watchdog says.

Maldivian troops blockaded parliament and clashed with opposition leaders for a second day, witnesses said

A 40-year old four-storey building collapsed in the Indian city of Mumbai yesterday, killing at least eight people with

Twelve of Yingluck Shinawatra’s bank accounts will be seized by the Department of Legal Execution in the first civil liability action against the ex-premier whose rice-pledging scheme has been alleged to have caused huge financial damages to Thailand.

Sri Lanka announced yesterday it was intensifying its war on dengue fever, with schools to shut across the island to

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday vowed to press on with his drug war that has claimed thousands of

The Chinese Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog has launched an investigation into a Politburo member who was

Maldives lawmakers were locked out of parliament yesterday after President Abdulla Yameen ordered it shut to prevent

China warned yesterday that it will step up its troop deployment in a border dispute with India, vowing to defend its

Tens of thousands of people in northeast Japan were told to evacuate their homes yesterday as heavy rain caused

With over 10 crore Indians, including 8.5 crore girls, being married off before they turn 18, every third child bride in

Myanmar's military has maintained ties with North Korea, even though the civilian-led government denies any

China is the world's largest holder of foreign exchange reserves. It has over two and half times more foreign reserves than the second largest reserve holder, Japan. The Asian giant has US$3.483 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, despite recent fall in foreign reserves.

Hours before proposed military talks between South and North Korea, Pyongyang yesterday still refused to confirm its participation,

Gunmen ambushed a car and killed four family members from the Shia Muslim minority in a sectarian attack in

The nephew of Maldives president Abdulla Yameen has been arrested for allegedly bribing politicians to challenge the