Heavy rains have brought some of the worst floods in years to Thailand's rural northeast where 23 people have died over the past month,

Bangladesh signed an agreement with Cambodia to purchase 1 million tonnes of rice within the next five years, officials say.

Government monitoring of online activities could have a “devastating effect” on freedom of expression in Cambodia, according to a new study, with most people saying that they felt less comfortable freely expressing themselves online while under such surveillance.

A Philippine mayor accused of involvement in narcotics trafficking was shot dead along with 14 other people in a police raid yesterday.

A total of 13 people are killed after a van carrying the passengers catches fire after hitting a gas pipeline near Attock in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, rescue officials say.

Two separate meetings, headed by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, PML-N leaders decide to rally behind Nawaz's younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif, as his eventual successor, and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, is tapped to take over as interim prime minister.

Asia is home to more Fortune Global 500 companies than any other continent, and Beijing hosts more global companies, the most of any city in the world.

The United Nations' Human Rights Council has replaced the chairwoman of a team investigating allegations of killings and rape by

Indonesia has 45 million active users of Instagram in a month, making the country the biggest market in Asia Pacific.

Bihar Chief Minsiter Nitish Kumar resigns from his post citing that his conscience has pricked him to take the decision.

Ramnath Kovind, who was elected the president of India as the nominee of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, is sworn in as the 14th head of state and called for preserving the diversity and unity of the country.

Twelve of Yingluck Shinawatra’s bank accounts will be seized by the Department of Legal Execution in the first civil liability action against the ex-premier whose rice-pledging scheme has been alleged to have caused huge financial damages to Thailand.

China is the world's largest holder of foreign exchange reserves. It has over two and half times more foreign reserves than the second largest reserve holder, Japan. The Asian giant has US$3.483 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, despite recent fall in foreign reserves.

In the middle of the night on July 4, more than a dozen masked men, dressed head-to-toe in black, surrounded Abdu Sulwon's home

A leader of Thailand's 'Red Shirt' movement was jailed yesterday for defaming an ex-prime minister, sidelining a key voice of dissent

At least 28 people are killed after a bus plunges into a deep gorge in a Himalayan region of northern India popular with tourists, police say.

Some very "peculiar signals" have been noticed come from a star just 11 light-years away, scientists in Puerto Rico say.

Plans are underway to rebrand palm oil, according to a Malaysian minister.

Thailand has amended a royal property law to formally give King Maha Vajiralongkorn full control of the agency which manages the

President Rodrigo Duterte offered self-rule to the Philippines' Muslim minority yesterday in an attempt to defeat Islamist militants who