Beijing officials have shut down one of China's largest "underground" Protestant churches for operating without a licence, the Communist

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that triggered massive landslides in northern Japan rose to 44 yesterday with tens of thousands of police and troops still on the ground to support survivors.

A doctor-to-be gives his primary school teacher a new lease of life by donating part of his liver to save her.

A Singapore court orders the return to Malaysia of about S$15.3 million ($11.1 million), just a small portion of total seized in the city state as part of a probe into transactions linked to scandal-hit state fund 1MDB, lawyers for the fund and the Malaysian government say.

China opens a second internet court to address the rising disputes and problems caused by its ever-growing reliance on cyberspace.

Clashes and air strikes have left 84 people dead around Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida since the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks, hospital sources said yesterday.

The Environment and Forestry Ministry of Indonesia has removed three popular songbirds from the newly revised protected species lists following protests from bird owners.

From Xi’s China to Duterte’s Philippines, Asian economies have risen as the world’s best countries in terms of GDP.

The death toll from a powerful quake that triggered landslides in northern Japan rose to 35 yesterday, as tens of thousands of rescue

The Chinese government's top diplomat defended Beijing's Belt and Road infrastructure initiative during a visit to Pakistan yesterday, rejecting criticism the project has saddled Pakistan with expensive debt.

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake shake the southern Philippines, sending frightened residents fleeing from buildings, officials and eyewitnesses say.

Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs yesterday scrabbled through the mud to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18.

Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors yesterday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday denounced the caning of two women convicted of having lesbian sex in violation of strict Islamic laws, after the punishment sparked a storm of criticism.

Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with another 75 missing, many of them children, the Red Cross said

Strongman Hun Sen was formally installed as Cambodia's prime minister for a new term yesterday, after securing all 125 seats in an

Nauru's president has demanded China apologise for a top diplomat's "crazy" behaviour at the Pacific Islands Forum and lashed out at Beijing's "arrogant" presence in the region.

Some 10,000 people swarm a well-known square in the Thai capital as the young Thai football team who were dramatically rescued from a flooded cave in July attended a formal thank-you dinner presided by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Japan's Kansai airport will reopen partially, the government says, after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland.

Japan acknowledges for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.