Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Cuba on Thursday for the first visit to the country by a Japanese premier, saying

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday invited the United Nations' chief and international human rights experts to investigate allegations of widespread extrajudicial killings, but insisted they also face him in a public debate.

Islamic militants in the Philippines yesterday freed an Indonesian sailor abducted at sea, days after the gunmen released a Norwegian

A Bangladeshi businessman is deported from Malaysia allegedly for supplying arms to a terrorist organisation, local daily The Star reports today.

The SWIFT inter-bank messaging network plans to send daily reports to clients to help them more quickly identify unauthorised payment instructions like those used by hackers to steal $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank in February.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allegedly once shot dead a justice department agent with an Uzi submachine gun while

A piece of aircraft wreckage found in June off Tanzania has been confirmed as coming from the doomed airliner MH370,

An explosion on a speedboat in Bali left two foreigners dead and 18 other tourists injured yesterday, sparking dramatic scenes as

Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body says it has issued a fatwa against intentionally starting forest fires in a bid to stop the blazes that cloak Southeast Asia in haze every year.

New Zealand will fund a multi-million dollar programme aimed at getting more children in Pacific island countries to play sport.

North Korea yesterday sought to justify its weapons programme as a defence against US nuclear "blackmail" as world

An Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Florida carrying a robot space probe on NASA's first quest to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth in hopes of learning more about the origins of life.

Thailand's junta-appointed lawmakers yesterday signed off on a nearly $124 million budget hike for defence spending, while

US President Barack Obama yesterday warned Beijing it could not ignore a tribunal's ruling rejecting its sweeping claims to the

Israel's Space Communication Ltd say on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite is destroyed by an explosion at SpaceX's Florida launch site.

Malaysia yesterday reported its first suspected case of Zika, a 58-year-old woman believed to have contracted it in neighbouring Singapore where more than 100 cases have been confirmed.

Confirmed cases of Zika virus in Singapore rose to 82 on Tuesday, as the United States joined a growing list of countries,

An Indonesian teenager who stabbed a priest in a church and tried to set off a homemade bomb was obsessed with the Islamic

Two suspects in a spate of bomb attacks on Thailand's tourist towns have links to southern Muslim rebels, police said yesterday,

Indian authorities lift curfew from Indian-controlled Kashmir after 52 days of lockdown in the region.