Thousands of people in Singapore are queuing to pay tribute to late statesman Lee Kuan Yew as he lies in state in parliament

China yesterday executed three people for a mass stabbing in Kunming that killed 31 people last year, the country's top court said, with

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo yesterday to forge tighter economic and defence ties,

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will offer island nations in the Indian Ocean a broad range of military and civilian assistance next week in a bid to wrest back some of the influence China has gained by spending billions of dollars in the region.

Senior AAP leader Yogendra Yadav said yesterday that he did not believe that the party has lost is transparency.

Turkey will not take part in any military offensive by Iraq to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday.

Thailand's junta chief spoke out yesterday against a proposal from one of his own military-appointed panels that he and other key coup figures should be temporarily banned from politics once civilian rule is returned.

Indonesia yesterday rejected the offer of a prisoner swap proposed by Canberra in an 11th-hour bid to save two Australian drug smugglers facing execution, saying it is determined to put to death those "who have poisoned our nation".

The Iraqi military launched a major campaign to take back a key city from the self-proclaimed Islamic State over the weekend—a move that caught the US “by surprise,” in the words of one American government official.

Pakistan and India held their first high-level talks for nearly a year yesterday, with a senior Indian diplomat hailing the meeting in Islamabad as "positive and constructive".

One of the men convicted of gang raping a woman on a bus in Delhi has blamed his victim for the fatal attack, saying “girls are far more responsible for rape” than men.

India's western state of Maharashtra has introduced a ban on beef so strict that even possession could land you in jail for five years, media reports and the chief minister said yesterday.

“When the Congress was unwilling to credit others for India's freedom, how can they credit others for India's development.”

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on the motion of thanks to the President's address, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took on the opposition saying that in a democracy threats do not work.

Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and militia backed by aircraft pounded jihadists in and around Tikrit yesterday

Arun Singh, India's envoy to Paris, will take over the ambassadorial assignment in Washington DC, replacing S Jaishankar,

Taiwan's main opposition party weighed in on the fight over a controversial plan to process the island's nuclear

AAP yesterday said that attempts were being made to remove Arvind Kejriwal as national convener and announced

Three Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers were arrested and then released yesterday over their involvement

Riot police sealed hundreds of Myanmar student protesters inside a monastery yesterday in a tense standoff,