A powerful blast tore through a fireworks factory in southern India yesterday, killing nine labourers, police said. The manufacturing unit

India has asked Facebook Inc -owned WhatsApp messenger to take steps to prevent the circulation of false texts and provocative

The project owner of Malaysia's $20 billion East Coast Railway Link has told its main Chinese contractor to suspend work, both

The corruption trial of Malaysia's former premier Najib Razak will help to clean up the image of the UMNO party in the eyes of the

The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting

The government of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak spent years systematically obstructing probes into the alleged looting of state fund 1MDB, while also ruthlessly muzzling critics, according to current and former government officials.

The Malaysian High Court has granted an interim gag order against the media from discussing merits of the case of Najib Razak.

With news on the mission to rescue a dozen boys and their football coach in a cave in northern Thailand grabbing the nation’s attention, fake news, rumours and dramas are also poisoning the Internet, further burdening the people working in the area.

Rescuers battle intensifying rain to furiously pump water from a cave in Thailand, as officials thrash out plans to extract a young soccer team located by divers after being trapped and incommunicado for 10 days.

Japanese Emperor Akihito cancelled his public duties after suffering dizziness and nausea due to cerebral anemia, a condition caused by

Indian police yesterday said they have arrested 23 people after five men were bludgeoned to death by a crazed mob in yet another

Malaysia has frozen more than 400 bank accounts as part of a probe into a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, a task force

UK PM May floats new customs idea

A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster explodes shortly after liftoff, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space.

A Philippine mayor who paraded suspected drug dealers through the streets of his city is shot dead while attending a weekly flag-raising ceremony for government officials, police say.

Ousted Malaysian leader Najib Razak's party has chosen his former deputy as its new leader, party officials said yesterday, after a

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a city in eastern Afghanistan where President Ashraf Ghani was visiting, killing at least 19 people,

The Maldivian opposition have chosen a new candidate to run against strongman President Abdulla Yameen in elections this year and

Rescue divers inched closer to a spot in a flooded cave where 12 boys and their football coach have been missing for more than a week

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appealed to China's Xi Jinping to help end sanctions against Pyongyang following his landmark