Four of 12 Thai schoolboys have been rescued from a flooded cave as divers launched a daring and dangerous mission to free the children and their soccer coach who have been trapped underground for more than two weeks, officials say.

Distraught relatives descended on a Thai hospital as many waits for the news of missing family members who disappeared when a tourist boat sank in rough weather, killing dozens of Chinese passengers.

Tens of thousands of South Korean women yesterday angrily urged the government to crack down on secretly-filmed spycam pornography in one of the biggest-ever female-only protests in the country.

Forty nine people have been killed and 48 are unaccounted for in western and central Japan as torrential rain pounds the area, public broadcaster NHK said yesterday, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes.

India will further smoothen the process of granting visa for foreigners and is implementing the Immigration Visa Foreigners’ Registration and Tracking (IVFRT) in a mission mode for their safety and convenience, the country's Home Minister Rajnath Singh says.

Twelve boys and their football coach are trapped for two weeks inside a flooded Thai cave.

Conditions are “perfect” to evacuate a young football team from a flooded Thai cave in the coming days before fresh rains and a possible rise in carbon dioxide further imperil the group, the rescue mission chief says.

A day after Najib Razak’s daughter complained about having her personal bank account frozen, three other children of the former prime minister are also said to have suffered a similar fate.

At least 50 people are missing and four in critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK says, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes.

The coach of a youth football team trapped for two weeks in a flooded Thai cave sends his "apologies" to their parents in a scrawled note handed to divers, as officials appear to rule out an immediate rescue.

Elon Musk is sending a team of engineers to Thailand to explore ways to help rescue 12 young footballers and their coach having been trapped in a cave in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.

Malaysian Bar urges its government to immediately cease the ongoing crackdown on undocumented migrants and embark on a comprehensive legalisation programme allowing them to independently apply for regularisation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned again that the country's fight against deeply ingrained corruption is not yet over, and that the

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito resumed his official duties yesterday after three days of treatment for insufficient blood supply to the

Malaysian and Chinese officials are in talks for Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to visit Beijing soon, two sources with knowledge of the

Rescuers in Thailand are no closer to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found pale and weak but otherwise in good health, after nine days lost underground.

The corruption trial of Malaysia's former premier Najib Razak will help to clean up the image of the UMNO party in the eyes of the

The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting

A powerful blast tore through a fireworks factory in southern India yesterday, killing nine labourers, police said. The manufacturing unit

India has asked Facebook Inc -owned WhatsApp messenger to take steps to prevent the circulation of false texts and provocative