Indian police yesterday said they had arrested dozens of people for violence and vandalism during protests this week over the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in West Bengal.

The killing of an 11-year-old girl triggered violent protests, arrests and renewed anger over women’s safety in India

The fire broke out in Jinjiang in Fujian province

Japanese police arrested a woman near Tokyo for allegedly sewing shut the lips of her housemate, officials said Thursday

An airport in a remote Japanese region hit by a deadly earthquake in 2024 was given a new look yesterday, temporarily nicknamed after the Pokemon universe, and its lobby adorned with a floating Pikachu on a plane-shaped balloon.

Ships from Japan’s and China’s coast guards faced off near disputed islands yesterday, with each claiming they drove out the other’s vessels that had intruded into their territorial waters.

Gunmen killed nine police officers, and others are missing, following an attack on a checkpost at a dam project in Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan province, officials said today

India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reiterated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s position on illegal immigration, declaring that “every infiltrator” would be identified and removed from the country to ensure national security.

Natural disasters are common across China, particularly in the summer, when some regions experience intense rainfall while others bake in scorching heat

According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai received more than 265 mm of rainfall and over 227 mm in the suburbs during the last 24 hours (till 6 pm on Sunday)

Malaysian Immigration Department detained him after a viral post allegedly showed him holding both Bangladeshi and Malaysian passports

Observers say that first move set the tone for the government's subsequent actions -- fast and symbolically loaded but also often legally contested and executed with little patience for institutional processes

11 others injured, says officials

The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a roadside in the northeastern Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident occurred

Myanmar's deposed leader is under house arrest in the capital Naypyidaw, according to her captors, but exactly where is hard to say in a city experts describe as purpose-built to guard its closed-ranks rulers' secrets

There have been 100,114 conflict-related fatalities since the coup, according to the latest data from monitoring group Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), which tallies media reports of violence

In a tiny Tokyo restaurant filled with the smell of Nepalese dumplings, Budhathoki Samjhana surveys the business she built from scratch but may now have to give up as Japan tightens visa rules

Mass casualty accidents are common at Myanmar's mines -- particularly in monsoon season, when rains destabilise sites where workers have dug unsafe shafts or piled up precarious waste heaps

Pakistan’s government has ordered law enforcement nationwide to arrest Afghan citizens without visas from July 10, according to a directive seen by AFP yesterday, part of an intensifying deportation drive.

The Taliban government said the airstrikes hit three eastern provinces, killing 36 civilians and wounding 163