The two Koreas yesterday held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for reconnecting and repairing roads and railways across the divided peninsula, with the North calling on the South to push through joint projects despite sanctions on Pyongyang.

At least eight people were killed and 22 injured after a hijacked bus crashed into pedestrians in east China's Fujian province yesterday afternoon, state media reported.

Saudi Arabia’s first robot employee starts work at one of the kingdom’s government entities and has been handed its job ID as well as his required functions, reports Arab News.

Indonesian rescuers uses drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people, warning more victims are expected to be uncovered as the search expands.

Indian government has decided to rename three islands in Andaman and Nicobar - Havelock Island to Swaraj Dweep, Neil Island to Shaheed Dweep and Ross Island to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island.

China yesterday accused Britain and the European Union of hypocrisy for expressing concern about China's detention of two Canadian citizens, saying they had double standards for not mentioning a senior Chinese executive arrested in Canada.

Dozens of filled body bags are hauled away from buildings flattened by Indonesia's volcano-triggered tsunami today, as the death toll climbs to 373 and search teams pushes on with the grim hunt for corpses.

A volcano-triggered tsunami leaves at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials says, voicing fears that the toll would rise further.

In a rare emotional address ahead of his abdication next year, Japanese Emperor Akihito said he took "deep comfort" that his long reign had been one of peace as he remembered the "countless lives" lost in World War II.

Twenty-three people died in western Nepal when a bus carrying school students and teachers back from a botanical field trip plunged

When he spoke to President Donald Trump on the telephone a week ago Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's agenda had

Malaysian business owners and restaurant operators put out an SOS to the Prime Minister to intervene on what they say is a critical shortage of workers.

China's Foreign Ministry said yesterday it resolutely opposed "slanderous" accusations from the United States and other allies criticising China for economic espionage, urging Washington to withdraw its accusations.

China yesterday denounced the United States for passing a new law on restive Tibet, saying it was "resolutely opposed" to the US legislation on what China considers an internal affair, and it risked causing "serious harm" to their relations.

North Korea said yesterday its commitment to denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula was bound up with a "complete removal of US nuclear threats".

Facebook has removed hundreds of pages and accounts in Myanmar with hidden links to the military, the platform said yesterday, as the

A third Canadian citizen has been detained in China, a Canadian newspaper reported yesterday , amid a diplomatic spat between Beijing

An Indian television journalist has been detained for criticizing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on social media under laws

One of South Korean largest human rights groups will strip Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its 2004 Gwangju prize because of her "indifference" to the atrocities

President Xi Jinping yesterday warned that no one can "dictate" China's economic development path as the Communist Party marked 40 years of its historic "reform and opening up" policy amid a stern challenge from the United States.