Amnesty International has slammed an unprecedented ban by Thailand's junta on using the internet to communicate with three trenchant

Taiwan raises the penalty for animal abuse and became the first country in Asia to ban the consumption of dogs and cats. Under an Animal Protection Act amendment that passed its third reading at the Legislature, people who sell, purchase, eat or possess the carcasses of dogs or cats or any food products made with their carcasses or organs are subject to a fine

Nine people including four members of the Philippine security forces were killed yesterday in clashes with 10 suspected members of the

Indonesia's police shot dead six suspected IS-linked militants in a gunfight on Java island over the weekend, a police spokesman said

The UN children's agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar's government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed a new constitution at a glittering palace ceremony yesterday, an essential step towards

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he has ordered troops to deploy on unoccupied South China Sea islands, boosting

Thailand's government yesterday agreed to buy 10 tanks from China for $58 million in the latest defence spending by a junta with a taste

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he had fired his interior minister for corruption as signs of infighting rocked his

Human rights body Fortify Rights has demanded Malaysia to investigate deaths in its immigration detention centres without delay and re-open an investigation into the human trafficking of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar and Bangladeshis in recent years.

An explosion in northern China's Shanxi province kills at least nine and injures six, state news agency Xinhua reports.

At least 11 people are buried by a landslide triggered by heavy rain on Indonesia's Java island, a disaster official says.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket recovered at sea from its maiden flight last year blasts off again from Florida in the first successful launch of a recycled orbital-class booster.

SpaceX is poised to launch its first recycled rocket, using a booster that sent food and supplies to the astronauts living at the International Space Station in April.

The heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve last year was "state-sponsored," an FBI officer in the Philippines, who has been involved in the investigations, says.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday warned he may impose martial law and suspend elections for tens of thousands of local

The embryonic cells of the mango brought back by manned spacecraft Shenzhou XI last November after the 33-day space mission have now grown new tissues at a lab in South China's Hainan province.

A young couple in Kedah of northwest Malaysia decides to go against traditional norms by wearing their secondary school uniforms as bridal outfits on their wedding day.

A 25-year-old sea turtle in Thailand who swallowed nearly a thousand coins tossed by tourists seeking good luck died Tuesday, two weeks after having surgery to remove the coins from its stomach.

Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-Hye reports to prosecutors for questioning over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down.