Hong Kong yesterday voted to ban ivory sales in a landmark move to end the infamous trade in the city. MPs

Five Thai teens and a 20-year-old were yesterday sentenced to between nearly 3.5 and 11.5 years in prison for setting

Sri Lanka is to set up special courts to investigate charges of corruption amounting to billions of dollars under former

North Korea's nuclear program has made strides in recent months but the country has not yet demonstrated all the

Almost a dozen countries have agreed to advance their annual contributions to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees

India has signed a 20-year pact with the Seychelles to build an airstrip and a jetty for its navy in the island chain, the

The therapist who started the project is among 3,500 who won health quality service awards.

An eight-month-old Indian girl was recovering yesterday in hospital after she was raped at her home in Delhi, the

A roadside bomb yesterday killed eight people including three women and a child in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt

An eight-month-old infant is allegedly raped by her cousin in the Indian capital, Delhi.

The desire of Indian parents for sons has created an estimated 21 million "unwanted" girls because couples keep

Indonesian President Joko Widodo wraps up his two-day state visit seeking stronger ties with Bangladesh and extending supports to Rohingyas for their safe return.

The sight of a cockroach crawling in her car gave a 61-year-old woman such a fright that she crashed into one end of an overhead bridge in Jurong East Central of Singapore last Friday.

An explosives-packed ambulance blows up in a crowded area of Kabul killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 others, officials say, in one of the biggest blasts to rock the war-torn city in recent years.

Nationwide protests at the police killing of a young ethnic Pashtun man in Pakistan’s largest city shines a spotlight on allegations of persecution by the authorities against refugees from the country’s conflict-ridden northwest.

A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a river in western India after smashing through a bridge railing, killing 12 and injuring another three, police say.

China yesterday outlined its ambitions to extend President Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative to the Arctic by developing

Bangladesh stands at the tenth position in HIV deaths among Asian countries, according to a UNAIDS report.

A huge fire tears through a South Korean hospital killing 41 people, reports say, in the country's worst blaze for over a decade. More than 80 others were hurt in the blaze, which comes just weeks before thousands of athletes and foreign visitors are expected in the country for the Winter Olympics.

Six Southeast Asian nations yesterday launched an intelligence pact aimed at combating Islamist militants and improving co-operation on security threats, overcoming what analysts described as a high level of distrust.