More than 50 Indonesian companies are being punished for their role in causing the haze that blanketed South East Asia earlier this year.

Two children have become the first victims found following a ferry accident in central Indonesia, an official says, as search and rescue teams continue scouring the rough seas for survivors.

UK astronaut Tim Peake thanks the thousands of people around the world who sent him a good luck message, as he spends his first weekend in space.

Aung San Suu Kyi is sending her newly-elected MPs on a crash course on Myanmar's parliament as they prepare to take their seats for the first time early next year, her party said yesterday.

Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, say they have arrested two key members of the "Indian branch" of al-Qaeda.

Typhoon Melor causes heavy flooding and kills at least 9 people, authorities say.

Malala Yousafzai condemns a call by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the US.

Typhoon Melor carves through the central Philippines bringing heavy rain and strong winds that left millions without power and at least three people dead, officials say.

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej makes a rare public appearance, amid concerns for his ailing health.

Presently, Afghanistan is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman, bit it was not always such a repressive country. Photographs from the 1950s and 60s depict a very different Afghanistan.

Myanmar's feared former junta leader Than Shwe has endorsed his one-time nemesis Aung San Suu Kyi as a "future leader" of the

Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks yesterday with the president and military chief about the handover of power, the first such discussions since her opposition party's election triumph.

Myanmar's top leaders will hold talks this week with opposition chief Aung San Suu Kyi, the first since her party's landmark election success, officials said yesterday.

Two prominent Thai opposition leaders were detained by soldiers yesterday as they tried to visit a public park at the centre of a corruption scandal that has

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan joins the rising chorus of protest against growing "intolerance" in India.

Hopes faded yesterday that any of 100 people still missing would be found alive two days after a landslide near a jade mine in northern

Hopes faded that any of 100 people still missing would be found alive two days after a landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar smashed into a makeshift settlement, burying mine workers as they slept.

At least 90 people have died in a huge landslide in a remote jade mining area of northern Myanmar, officials say as search teams continued to find bodies in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the country's shadowy jade industry.

Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in Malaysia yesterday condemned the string of Islamic extremist attacks from Paris to Mali, urging an international effort to fight the scourge.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has rebuked some politicians from her victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) for exceeding an internal election spending limit amid worries the beaten ruling party may seek to challenge poll results, an NLD source said.