Australia's prime minister imposed a formal ban on sex between ministers and their staff on Thursday after his deputy made "a

Rights groups have criticised Nepal for failing to prosecute wartime rights abuses, saying the government appeared more interested in

Tourists have been cancelling hundreds of hotel bookings in Maldives every day since the imposition of a state of emergency last week,

Pakistani Taliban militants yesterday shot dead four paramilitary policemen in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, where last month seven

India's ties with China and not just Pakistan are likely to get even worse than they already are, according to the US's intelligence chief.

Indian state-owned cross-border power trading arm National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd wins a contract for supplying 300 megawatts electricity to Bangladesh for 15 years. The power supply is expected to start from June this year.

A train commuter goes through extreme lengths to keep her valuables by her side during a security check at a station in China, when she climbed into an X-ray machine while holding on to her handbag.

Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in Kabul yesterday to participate in a high-level conference, local media

Citing increasing threats from China and Russia, the Pentagon is asking for a major boost in military spending for 2019, requesting

Sri Lanka's former leader Mahinda Rajapakse yesterday demanded a snap general election and challenged his successor's right to

Comments by US Vice President Mike Pence suggest the United States may be looking more favourably at diplomatic engagement with

The Pakistani Taliban yesterday confirmed that their deputy leader was killed in a suspected US drone strike last week and said they had

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses profound shock at the death of noted human rights lawyer and social activist of Pakistan Asma Jahangir.

Rescuers yesterday ended their search of a Taiwan building partially toppled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake as the last trapped pair

The US and South Korea stand united against North Korea's nuclear program, even as the two Koreas hold talks in conjunction with the

Pakatan Harapan Chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been admitted to the National Heart Institute (IJN) in Malaysia for a chest infection.

Samsung Electronics' ailing chairman, Lee Kun-hee, was yesterday named by South Korean police as a suspect in an 8.2 billion won ($7.5

South Korean police say Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee was suspected of evading tax for 8.2 billion won ($7.5 million), and of using bank accounts held by employees that held 400 billion won, Yonhap News Agency says.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced one person to death and five others to life imprisonment for lynching a student accused of

When North Korea's chef de mission at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South visited an athletes' village fitness centre he made a