There is little doubt that the questionable homegrown commission is simply a tool to temporarily quell the backlash that Suu Kyi is facing as a result of her silence and inaction on the army crackdown in the northwest, resulting in at least 86 deaths and 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks with the president of Taiwan, a move that will be sure to anger China.

China's top court yesterday cleared a man executed 21 years ago for murder -- more than a decade after another man confessed

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un conducted a large-scale artillery drill simulating an attack on the South Korean capital and

More than 200,000 Indonesian Muslims pray in unison and chant Koranic verses in the second major demonstration against Jakarta's Christian governor, as conservative groups push for his arrest for allegedly insulting Islam.

A new body set up by Myanmar's government to investigate allegations of rights abuses against Rohingya in Rakhine lacks credibility, activists said Friday, as former UN chief Kofi Annan began a visit to the troubled state.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously imposed its toughest ever sanctions on North Korea, placing a

Malaysia's national soccer team has cancelled two friendly under-22 matches with Myanmar, in protest against the Southeast Asian nation's bloody crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a team spokesman said on Thursday.

A property development company AP Thailand's social outreach project, which sees the construction of non-rectangular shaped football pitches, is listed in Time magazines' "The 25 Best Inventions of 2016" list.

Nepal's government on Tuesday approved amendments to the controversial constitution that was rushed through

An outspoken billionaire Saudi prince wants an "urgent" end to his country's ban on women driving, saying overturning the law was

All cinemas must play the national anthem before screening movies and audiences should stand for it, India's highest

Seven military bodyguards of President Rodrigo Duterte and two other soldiers were wounded yesterday in an ambush

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said the BJP's performance in parliamentary, assembly and local polls across

Thailand's parliament yesterday invited Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to become the next king, resolving

South Korea's scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye said yesterday she was willing to resign early and let parliament

South Korean President Park Geun-hye asks parliament to find a way for her to give up power and decide when she should step down amid an influence-peddling scandal, but the opposition says she is just trying to avoid impeachment.

Three al-Qaeda operatives arrested from South India were planning to kill 22 top leaders, including the countries Prime Minister Narendra Modi, say Indian cops.

Police in West Bengal rescues 13 babies and discovers the skeletons of two infants in raids on homes for the elderly and mentally disabled, as a probe into a suspected international human trafficking ring widens.

The Indian Union home ministry on Monday accorded sanction to National Investigation Agency to file chargesheet against the