Sri Lanka's national airline says it has stopped serving cashews after the country's president flew into a rage over nuts served to him on a flight to Colombo.

Twelve inventive South Korean college students deliberately made themselves overweight to dodge mandatory military service, a branch of the armed forces in Seoul said yesterday.

Samsung Electronics might reveal some details on the world’s first foldable smartphone in the pipeline at its developers’ conference in San Francisco in November, according to the industry.

A hotpot restaurant in eastern China has been shut down and a pregnant woman is undergoing health checks after a dead rat was found in a family’s meal.

Beijing officials have shut down one of China's largest "underground" Protestant churches for operating without a licence, the Communist

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that triggered massive landslides in northern Japan rose to 44 yesterday with tens of thousands of police and troops still on the ground to support survivors.

A doctor-to-be gives his primary school teacher a new lease of life by donating part of his liver to save her.

A Singapore court orders the return to Malaysia of about S$15.3 million ($11.1 million), just a small portion of total seized in the city state as part of a probe into transactions linked to scandal-hit state fund 1MDB, lawyers for the fund and the Malaysian government say.

China opens a second internet court to address the rising disputes and problems caused by its ever-growing reliance on cyberspace.

Clashes and air strikes have left 84 people dead around Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida since the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks, hospital sources said yesterday.

The Environment and Forestry Ministry of Indonesia has removed three popular songbirds from the newly revised protected species lists following protests from bird owners.

From Xi’s China to Duterte’s Philippines, Asian economies have risen as the world’s best countries in terms of GDP.

The Chinese government's top diplomat defended Beijing's Belt and Road infrastructure initiative during a visit to Pakistan yesterday, rejecting criticism the project has saddled Pakistan with expensive debt.

The death toll from a powerful quake that triggered landslides in northern Japan rose to 35 yesterday, as tens of thousands of rescue

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake shake the southern Philippines, sending frightened residents fleeing from buildings, officials and eyewitnesses say.

Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs yesterday scrabbled through the mud to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18.

Nauru's president has demanded China apologise for a top diplomat's "crazy" behaviour at the Pacific Islands Forum and lashed out at Beijing's "arrogant" presence in the region.

Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors yesterday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday denounced the caning of two women convicted of having lesbian sex in violation of strict Islamic laws, after the punishment sparked a storm of criticism.

Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with another 75 missing, many of them children, the Red Cross said