China yesterday demanded that the United States “immediately cancel” a potential sale of $2.2 billion in arms to self-ruled Taiwan,

The extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong's biggest crisis in decades is dead, the territory's leader says adding that the government's work on the legislation had been a "total failure", but critics accused her of playing with words.

A South Korean man has defected to North Korea, following in the footsteps of his political parents who also made a high-profile switch

Police arrested six people during a demonstration in one of Hong Kong’s most popular tourist areas on Sunday night, where thousands

The BJP-ruled government has no relation to the ongoing developments in Karnataka and did not put pressure on any MLA or MP to

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed his desire to stay at the country’s official residence in Washington instead of an

Five people are arrested during overnight clashes in Hong Kong between riot officers and anti-government protesters, police say, as the political violence rocking the international hub shows no sign of abating.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition is on course to grab a solid majority in Japan’s upper house elections this month and cement

Sri Lanka’s President yesterday announced he will not allow his government to conclude a proposed military deal that would allow US

Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has said the affinity towards the slogan, ‘Jai Shri Ram’, was a recent development in West

Thousands of protesters marched in Yangon as outrage over the rape of a two-year-old spilled onto the streets following a viral online campaign in a case that has left Myanmar society reeling.

Dhaka and Beijing agree on speedy solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks in Beijing.

Bangladesh and Japan have discussed ways to further strengthen economic relation and cooperation between the two countries.

Bangladesh and China have signed nine instruments in different sectors ranging from aid for the Rohingyas and economic and technical cooperation, investment, power, culture and tourism.

At least four people have been killed and 21 still missing after a boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, officials have said, with a rescue operation continuing as hopes for finding survivors fade.

The Longqiao Cultural and Ecological Park in Sichuan, China, was due to reopen soon, but is now forced to stay closed for the remainder of the year after Chinese tourists picked all of its lotus flowers.

Beijing assures Dhaka that it would try to persuade Myanmar for taking back its nationals from Bangladesh as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang held bilateral talks in the Chinese capital.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday a recent Chinese missile launch in the disputed South China Sea was “disturbing” and contrary to Chinese pledges that it would not militarize the disputed waterway.

Japan ordered more than one million people on the southernmost island of Kyushu to take shelter in evacuation centres and other safe areas yesterday as heavy rains triggered small landslides and threatened to cause widespread flooding.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is now on a five-day bilateral official visit to China, reached Beijing, the Chinese capital, after attending inaugural ceremony of the WEF Summer Davos in Dalian, Liaoning Province.