At least 19 people were killed and up to 30 were missing after a huge fire tore through a casino-hotel complex in a Cambodian town on the Thai border, officials said yesterday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has kicked off a key meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, state media reported yesterday, a venue he has often used to announce major policy decisions marking the New Year.

South Korea accused the North of flying several drones across their shared border yesterday, prompting Seoul’s military to deploy warplanes to shoot them down -- with local media reporting one of the planes later crashed.

A Myanmar junta court will give its verdicts on five remaining charges in the 18-month trial of jailed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, a legal source told AFP.

Christmas Day floods in the Philippines forced the evacuation of nearly 46,000 people from their homes, civil defence officials said yesterday.

Nepal’s new government, led by the former Maoist rebel chief, will try to balance ties with its immediate neighbours China and India as it seeks economic growth in one of the world’s poorest countries, officials of the ruling coalition told Reuters.

A Myanmar junta court will give its verdicts on five remaining charges in the 18-month trial of jailed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, a legal source told AFP.

The criminal court of Maldives yesterday found the country’s former president Abdulla Yameen guilty on corruption and money laundering charges related to receiving kickbacks from a private company.

A former Maoist guerrilla who led a decade-long insurgency against Nepal’s Hindu monarchy was on Sunday appointed prime minister for a third time, in alliance with the main opposition after last month’s election returned a hung parliament.

A broken-down boat carrying 57 Rohingya refugees landed on Indonesia's western coast today after a month at sea, police said.

The UN Security Council called for Myanmar's junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday as it adopted its first ever resolution on the situation in the turmoil-ridden Southeast Asian country.

Nepal’s top court yesterday ordered the release of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer portrayed in the Netflix series “The Serpent” who was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday won a confidence vote in parliament, cementing his mandate a month after an inconclusive election result forced him to ally with the graft-tainted party of his former political rivals.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said the government has been monitoring the use of Myanmar mobile network in Rohingya refugee camps and formed a committee to discourage it.

A landslide killed at least 21 people, including children, while they slept in their tents at an unlicensed campsite in Malaysia yesterday, officials

Pakistan will take a dossier to the United Nations alleging its neighbour India has backed incidents of terrorism, the foreign ministry said

Beijing said yesterday it was “shocked” by a deadly attack on a Kabul hotel popular with Chinese business visitors, adding that five of its nationals were wounded.

Pakistan’s interior minister yesterday accused India of being behind a bombing in 2021 near the house of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of a militant Islamist group blamed for a deadly 2008 attack in Mumbai.

China sent a record 18 nuclear-capable bombers into Taiwan’s air defence zone, Taipei said yesterday, just days after Beijing banned more Taiwanese imports in the latest sign of deteriorating ties.

At least three people were killed when gunmen attacked a hotel popular with Chinese business people in the Afghan capital yesterday, with witnesses reporting multiple blasts and several bursts of gunfire.