Fears about the health of China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo rose yesterday as the hospital treating him said his liver

Twice as many elephants work in Thailand's tourism industry as the rest of Asia combined, with the vast majority kept in "severely inadequate conditions", a new report reveals.

Japan's population, excluding resident foreigners, fell at the beginning of this year at its fastest pace since comparable figures were

The Philippines' Supreme Court yesterday endorsed President Rodrigo Duterte's enforcement of martial law across the

Annoyed at its non-interfering stand on Kashmir, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif plans to skip an upcoming

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen lost his majority in parliament after opposition lawmakers defected and launched a

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel yesterday for the first ever visit by an Indian premier, amid growing

North Korea yesterday declared that the country had finally achieved its dream of building an intercontinental

Robots will start roaming South Korea's largest airport this summer, helping travelers find their boarding gates and keep its floors clean as the country prepares for its first Winter Olympics game.

The models of Galaxy S8/S8 Plus, of South Korean electronics giant Samsung, have won the 2017 Asia Mobile Awards in the Best Smartphone category for its a revolutionary design.

Two suspected rebels were killed and a civilian was critically wounded in a shootout with government forces in Indian

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday strongly rejected as "baseless" claims from his siblings of abuse of power

At least 11 people were killed and scores more people were injured in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in

Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative party was set for a major defeat in the Tokyo assembly

Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of soldiers to destroy mosquito breeding grounds as the country battles the spread of

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail critics of his use of martial law in the violence-wracked

A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive

At least 2,297 people were killed and 5,480 injured in road accidents in the last six months, a sharp rise in the death toll compared to the same period last year, National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR), an organisation campaigning for safety in the transport sector, says in a report. Move the mouse pointer over the bars of the interactive chart to have a comparative overview.

After the militant attack at Gulshan’s upscale café Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1 last year, law enforcers started launching operations at the hideouts of suspected militants across Bangladesh. On the map, 14 such anti-militancy drives including yesterday’s raid in Kushtia were marked. Click on the each marks to see brief information on the operation.

South Korea's new government will seek to sign a peace treaty with the North if it abandons its nuclear weapons, a minister said