Working condition for journalists in Bangladesh was worrying as reporters covering protests and the election were the targets of unprecedented violence, Reporters Without Borders says in its latest report.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad says Malaysia will not be successful as a developed nation, if it did not balance physical development with the preservation of nature and maintaining the existing environment.

China said yesterday leaders from 37 nations and North Korean representatives will attend a summit for its Belt and Road Initiative next week as it hit back at criticism of the massive trade infrastructure project.

Recent remarks by the head of Chinese online business giant Alibaba that young people should be prepared to work 12-hour days, six days a week have prompts a public debate over work-life balance in the country.

A quick count conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Cyrus Network indicates that Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has been reelected to the presidency.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was praised at home and abroad for her handling of the Christchurch mosques

South Korean President Moon Jae-in is willing to go anywhere to meet Kim Jong Un for a fourth summit, he said yesterday, hailing

As part of its regional vitalisation efforts, the Japanese government plans to launch a new system this autumn to encourage mid-level employees in and around their 40s who work in major cities to take jobs in regional areas.

Eastern Libyan forces bogged down in street battles in a push to seize the capital Tripoli deployed warplanes on Friday to hit several

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is calling on the US to stop “its current way of calculation” if it is interested in continuing diplomatic talks, according to a report from the country’s state news agency KCNA.

Three Bangladeshi men have been detained following a raid on an illegal gambling joint in Malaysia's Medan Niaga Tasik Damai of Sungai Besi.

North Korea has replaced its long-serving head of state with a close aide to leader Kim Jong Un, promoting a man who was placed on a US sanctions list last year for alleged human rights abuses, state media said Friday.

At least 16 people are killed and 30 wounded in a bomb blast at a fruit market in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, officials tell AFP.

China yesterday defended an exit ban imposed on a human rights lawyer as lawful after the United States urged Beijing to let him travel to receive a US fellowship.

Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a Japanese F-35 stealth fighter that crashed over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, but the pilot remains missing, authorities say.

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) says that there is “irrefutable evidence” that Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman downed a Pakistani F-16 with his MiG 21 Bison aircraft in a dogfight on 27 February.

Did Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi break election rules by addressing the nation on an anti-satellite test recently? Is it right to have a channel dedicated to the leader? Can the country's armed forces be called "Modi's soldiers"?

Thailand's first general election since a 2014 army coup has been touted by the ruling military junta as a return to democratic rule, but

There would be 117 all-women polling stations with women polling officials and security staff for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the north