China said yesterday it was "highly alarmed" over threats to its national security, after a state-run newspaper accused Australia of

China said yesterday that talk the country was building a military base in Pakistan was pure speculation, after a Pentagon report earlier

Samsung Electronics officially announces that the company will build a home appliance factory with US$380 million worth of investment in South Carolina, marking the company’s first major investment in the US since it relocated production facilities for US exports to Mexico in the early 1990s.

A US judge has halted deportations of all Iraqi nationals -- some set to be removed as early as Tuesday -- on the

Millions of Nepalis yesterday voted in the country's first local elections for two decades, a key step in its post-war

Myanmar authorities should immediately release three journalists arrested in northern Shan state yesterday on accusations of unlawful association after they covered an event organised by an armed ethnic group that is banned by authorities, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said.

In Asia, the biggest motor vehicle production plants are in China, Japan, India and South Korea. China, though, captures a bigger pie of the global market share in auto production than any other Asian country.

Rescuers dig through earth and rocks for a second day on Sunday in an increasingly bleak search for some 118 people still missing after their village in southwest China vanished under a huge landslide.

Philippine security forces claim to have identified three Bangladeshi nationals among the 89 suspected Islamist militants who hole up in southern town Mindanao since May 23.

A Russian-based IT security firm said that banks interrupted by cyberhacking also have to deal with data loss, damage to brand reputation and leakage of confidential information.

A shift in consumers' diet preference and flourishing baked food market pushed Bangladesh to hit a record high on wheat imports in current fiscal year. In this fiscal year, wheat import stood at 5.4 million tonnes till mid-June, show government statistics.

India is the world's largest milk producer, with 18 percent of global production, followed by the US and China. But when it comes to milk export, Thailand is the largest milk exporter in Asia.

The woman at the centre of South Korea's corruption scandal, Choi Soon-Sil, was handed a three-year jail term for

An angry mob beat a police officer to death outside a mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said yesterday,

North Korea has tested a rocket engine that could be fitted to an intercontinental ballistic missile, a US official said,

A suicide car bomber kills at least 11 people, including four police officers, in an attack near a checkpoint in the volatile southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say.

At least 34 people are killed when a Taliban car bomb struck a bank in Afghanistan's Lashkar Gah city as people were queueing to withdraw salaries, the latest bloody attack during the holy month of Ramadan.

Bangladesh is among the top 10 worst countries in the world for workers as “they are exposed to autocratic regimes and unfair labour practices due to inaccessibility to rights”.

Handheld crossbows that can fire out needles and nails are the latest must-have toy in China but anxious parents want them banned before a young child gets blinded or worse.

Angolan capital Luanda is the world's most expensive city for expatriates in a new ranking that also puts four other Asian centres in the top 10. Luanda took the top spot, followed by Hong Kong and Tokyo. Seoul was at six and Shanghai at eight, according to a survey.