South Korea and the United States wrapped up their annual large-scale military drills yesterday, but continued a separate joint naval exercise that has triggered dire threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile yesterday in apparent defiance of a concerted US push for tougher international sanctions to

Sepang boss Razlan Razali has urged Formula One's new owners to "put their ego aside" and learn from the "two wheels" of Moto GP if they are to revive their sport.

At least 130 executions were carried out in 11 Asian countries in 2016. The vast majority of them were executed in Pakistan and 10 in Bangladesh. However there is no data available about executions in China, still believed to be by far the world’s top executioner.

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean and US militaries say, defying warnings from the United States and the reclusive state's main ally, China, which have tried for years to rein in its arms programmes.

Seoul yesterday brushed aside US President Donald Trump's suggestion it should pay for a $1 billion missile defence system the two

Four Thai army rangers were shot dead in an ambush after a roadside bomb toppled their truck in Thailand's

Nine democracy protesters were yesterday arrested in Hong Kong over an anti-Beijing rally in the latest swoop by

Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs used for the Vikasnagar constituency in the Uttarakhand assembly elections earlier

Troops in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators outside an army garrison

China has fundamentally altered the physical and political landscape in the strategic South China Sea through

Legions of Japanese crisps addicts are suffering. The country is in the midst of a dire crisps shortage after violent

Two Hong Kong independence activists who were barred from taking up their seats as lawmakers last year were

BJP president Amit Shah yesterday took a dig at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and said she is suffering

Japan's gaffe-prone disaster reconstruction minister resigned yesterday after remarking it was lucky the catastrophic

As projected by most exit polls, the BJP was set to sweep the Delhi civic polls yesterday. As of mid-afternoon, the

A Chinese court has sentenced an American woman to three and a half years in prison and deportation on espionage

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday ordered internet service providers to block popular social media

North Korea rarely allows foreign correspondents into the country, but when it does, it makes them pay.

Pakistani Taliban militants say they detonated a roadside bomb targeting members of the Shi'ite minority that killed at least 10 people travelling in a minibus, and wounded several more, in a remote northwestern region.