Philippine Catholic leaders and rights groups yesterday condemned as "barbaric" President Rodrigo Duterte's plan to restore the

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday told the United States to prepare for repeal of an agreement on deployment of

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said killings he maintains he committed while mayor of a southern city,

The Philippines would not protest China's moves to militarise its man-made islands in the South China Sea, Foreign Minister

Thailand's rubber-stamp parliament yesterday passed a controversial cyber-crime law that critics say strengthens the junta's

The United States said yesterday it had withheld a major aid package to the Philippines because of significant

Thailand's new King Maha Vajiralongkorn has pardoned tens of thousands of prisoners, a first act of "mercy" as monarch as he

Myanmar has called an emergency Asean meeting to discuss the Rohingya crisis, a diplomat said yesterday, as regional tensions deepen over a bloody military crackdown on the country's Muslim minority.

A cyclone barrels into the southeast coast of India killing at least two people and bringing down trees and power lines as authorities move tens of thousands of people from low-lying areas.

China launches a new-generation weather satellite that can improve weather forecasting as well as help study lightning and air pollutants, including PM2.5.

Indonesian counter-terrorism forces on Saturday arrested three people near the capital Jakarta suspected of planning a bomb

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced after a devastating earthquake in Indonesia killed more than 100 people, an

An unmanned H-2B rocket blasts off from Tanegashima island in southern Japan to send a cargo ship to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast shows.

Aftershocks rattled the survivors of a devastating Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 100 people, as officials urgently appealed yesterday for medicine and doctors to treat the hundreds injured.

Vietnamese football authorities apologised on Thursday after fans hurled stones at the Indonesian team bus shortly after their Suzuki Cup semi-final tie in Hanoi, breaking a window and injuring two of the visiting team's staff.

Myanmar has stopped sending workers to Muslim-majority Malaysia as relations sour over a bloody military crackdown on the

Thai authorities are investigating the BBC over a Thai-language profile of the new king, officials said yesterday, after the article

Italians went to the polls yesterday in a constitutional referendum on which reformist Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked his future.

Aung San Suu Kyi must step in to prevent the "genocide" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Malaysia's prime minister said yesterday as he mocked the Nobel peace laureate for her inaction.

The Philippine government wants Bangladesh to share the findings of its investigation into how unknown hackers pulled off one of the world's largest cyber bank heists, to help speed up recovery of the stolen funds.