A firebrand monk slammed Aung San Suu Kyi as a "dictator" yesterday, accusing Myanmar's civilian-led government of trying to destroy an ultra-nationalist Buddhist group blamed for a surge in sectarian violence across the country.

China yesterday warned rivals against turning the South China Sea into a "cradle of war" and threatened an air defence zone there, after its claims to the strategically vital waters were declared invalid.

South Korea yesterday announced the site where a US THAAD anti-missile defence unit will be deployed against North

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may hold bilateral talks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina when he visits Mongolia for three days from Thursday to attend an Asia-Europe summit, Japanese government sources say.

North Korea said Monday that it had cut off its only official channel of diplomatic communications with the United States in

An international court yesterday delivered a damning verdict against China in a Philippine challenge over Beijing-occupied

Nepal was thrown into political crisis yesterday when the main Maoist party withdrew its support from the ruling coalition and called for the formation of a new government, threatening to topple Prime Minister KP Oli.

Satellite imagery indicates a high-level of activity at North Korea's nuclear test site to ensure the facility is always ready for use on any orders from Pyongyang, a US think-tank says.

Singapore court sentences four Bangladeshi workers to two to five years’ imprisonment for financing terrorism. They were detained in April under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims victory in weekend elections, giving a boost to his long-cherished desire to water down the country's pacifist constitution.

There are fears of more violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, after a policeman drowns when an angry crowd pushed his car in a river.

North Korea threatens to take "physical action" after Washington and Seoul announced they would deploy a sophisticated US anti-missile defence system to counter the growing menace from Pyongyang.

Flash floods from torrential downpours in the in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have killed 15 people, with

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a landslide victory yesterday in an election for parliament's upper house, despite concerns about his economic policies and plans to revise the nation's post-war pacifist constitution for the first time.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inducted 19 new ministers into his cabinet to bolster his two-year-old

Veteran journalist MJ Akbar made his debut as a federal Indian minister last Tuesday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook an expansion of his council of ministers for the second time in just over two years.

Five protesters and a police officer were killed in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state yesterday, police said, raising the death toll in violence sparked by the death of a separatist militant to 21 since Friday.

Renowned Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who dedicated his life to the poor, has died at the age of 88. Edhi's family said he

Eight protesters were killed and more than 200 others injured in disputed Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday after

Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday's three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani.