Afghanistan's Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.

Chinese lawmakers are discussing new rules to prevent workplace discrimination and sexual harassment against women amid a string of high-profile cases in recent months.

The Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan’s election commission, a panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration, a spokesman for the Islamist government said yesterday.

The death toll from Malaysia’s worst floods in years rose to 46 yesterday, with five people still missing, officials said, as work crews continued a massive clean-up on Christmas day.

More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar’s conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human rights group.

More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar's conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human rights group.

Japan’s government yesterday unveiled its biggest ever full-year budget, including record defence spending to counter intensifying regional security threats.

An Indian court urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to suspend political rallies and election campaigns in poll-bound states amid the rising number of Omicron cases, a variant of Covid-19.

Myanmar’s military carried out more airstrikes on a rebel-controlled area near the Thai border, the rebel group said yesterday, in the latest escalation of violence that has sent hundreds fleeing into Thailand.

Asian markets rose in thin trade yesterday, extending their rally as fears over the Omicron coronavirus variant faded and further positive economic data from the United States cheered investors.

Two Hong Kong universities yesterday removed sculptures marking Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, as authorities steadily erase all remaining traces of the deadly event from the southern Chinese territory.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law legislation that bans imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said, provoking an angry Chinese condemnation.

South Korea’s ex-president Park Geun-hye received a pardon yesterday, cutting short a jail term of more than 20 years for corruption with her successor saying he granted it in the interest of national unity.

Myanmar's military junta did not allow a meeting between visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the Indian media reported today.

India has officially reached out to Myanmar for the first time since the February 1 military coup to prescribe its military ruler to return to democracy and end all violence at the earliest.

A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience.

Dissident Chinese artists, including Ai Weiwei, have decried a Hong Kong university’s removal of a statue honouring protesters killed at

Two people were killed and two others injured after a powerful explosion ripped through an Indian court building yesterday, police said. Footage

A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, a government spokesman said, and several people were injured in the blast, according to unconfirmed reports.

Dozens of jade miners who remain missing yesterday following a landslide in Myanmar’s Kachin State have “very little chance of survival”, according to a fire department official.