The embryonic cells of the mango brought back by manned spacecraft Shenzhou XI last November after the 33-day space mission have now grown new tissues at a lab in South China's Hainan province.

A woman unable to become pregnant with her own eggs due to illness has given birth to a baby conceived using a donated egg from an anonymous third party, a Kobe-based nonprofit organization that mediated between them announces.

A new North Korean missile test failed yesterday, the South and US said, two weeks after Pyongyang launched four

Government officials say one student has died and 20 others were injured following a stampede during a morning bathroom break at an elementary school in central China.

A young couple in Kedah of northwest Malaysia decides to go against traditional norms by wearing their secondary school uniforms as bridal outfits on their wedding day.

South Korea's ousted president Park Geun-Hye was questioned by prosecutors yesterday about the corruption and

China has said it will give a global push to its ambitious Silk Road initiative after a UN Security Council resolution

Some climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest during the upcoming spring climbing season will be strapped with a

The president of mainly Muslim Pakistan has signed into law a bill allowing the Hindu minority to register their

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) attaches assets worth Rs 18.37 crore of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), an NGO based at Dongri in south Mumbai, in the Zakir Naik money laundering case.

Mansions owned by maids, gardeners and drivers until now have aroused little suspicion in India, where the wealthy

A saffron-robed Hindu holy man was sworn in yesterday to lead India's most populous state, sealing what appears to

Even as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledges to ensure that blue skies never become a luxury, a state-backed firm is doing brisk business selling 48 yuan ($6.95) cans of fresh air bottled in a forest in western China.

Due to inefficient solutions in power lines, over 4000 saker falcons worth Mongolian Tugrik 64 billion ($26 million) die annually in Mongolia. This number increases by two times in some years.

Out of the top five countries that received the most remittances from the US, four are from Asia, according to the latest World Bank data.

A Japanese court yesterday ruled for the first time that the government bears responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and

Beijing was furious with India last year for launching Agni V, but now it plans to build ballistic, cruise, anti-aircraft and anti-ship

A New Zealand river revered by Maori has been recognised by parliament as a "legal person", in a move believed to be a world first.

The United States yesterday vowed a fresh strategy to counter the North Korean nuclear threat, admitting that all previous efforts had failed.

Malaysia used a DNA sample from one of Kim Jong-Nam's children to confirm the identity of the assassinated half-