Japan is planning for Emperor Akihito to retire and be replaced by his eldest son on January 1, 2019, reports said yesterday, as the

Taiwan scrambled jets and navy ships yesterday as a group of Chinese warships, led by its sole aircraft carrier, sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the latest sign of heightened tension between Beijing and the self-ruled island.

Chinese police shot dead three "rioters" in the restive Xinjiang region after they resisted arrest, state media reported yesterday, in the

North Korea said on Sunday it can test launch an intercontinental ballistic missile at any time from any location set by leader Kim Jong

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called on South Korea to remove a statue of a "comfort woman" which has reignited a diplomatic row over Tokyo's wartime sex slavery.

Japan recalled its ambassador to South Korea yesterday to protest the placing of a statue symbolising victims of Japanese wartime sex

The impeachment trial of South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye got under way yesterday, with her lawyers arguing there is no

In what could be the last New Year's auction at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market, the owner of the Sushizanmai restaurant chain

Five Indian states representing more than 160 million voters will go to the polls in the next two months, officials

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday decided to conduct daily hearings against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his

The death toll from a mine collapse in eastern India's Jharkhand state rose to 17 yesterday as rescue workers continued

The chief minister of India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday tried to seize control of its ruling party

China will ban all ivory trade and processing by the end of 2017, the government said, in a move hailed by conservationists as a "game

Israel's anti-terrorism directorate issues a travel warning for India, citing an immediate threat of attack to Western and tourist targets, particularly in the south-west of the country.

China's State Grid Corporation is set to build a $1.5-billion power line across Pakistan to enable the transmission of 4,000 megawatts of

China has blocked India's request to add the head of the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad to a UN Security Council

China will hold its first military drills with Nepal next year, China's Defence Ministry said yesterday, in a move that

Chinese police have shot dead three people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang

The Indian Ocean island of Mayotte has been forced to impose severe water restrictions on tens of thousands of people

The world's oldest male panda, with more than 130 descendants -- a quarter of all the captive-bred pandas on the