North and South Korea yesterday reopened a cross-border hotline which had been shut down since 2016, forging

Doctors across India went on strike yesterday over a controversial bill that would allow practitioners of alternative

Two people were killed and thousands fled strong winds and floods as a tropical depression hit the central

Pakistan has summoned the US ambassador in a rare public rebuke after Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to

South Korea yesterday proposed high-level talks with Pyongyang on January 9, after the North's leader Kim Jong-Un

India and Pakistan yesterday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations under an agreement that aims to prevent both sides

Pakistan's government plans to seize control of charities and financial assets linked to Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed,

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un yesterday warned the United States he has a "nuclear button" on his table but

South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of

Cheers and shouts of joy erupted as Singaporean cameraman Lau Hon Meng walked out of the Changi Airport Terminal 2 transit area.

Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, in a bid to reduce accidents, an official said

Kim Jong Un wants to turn the art of kimchi-making into a science. And the North Korean leader is putting his money where his mouth is.

The Philippine central bank said yesterday it accidentally released defective 100-peso bills with the face of a former president left out.

A Muslim indigenous community on the Philippine island of Mindanao has suffered widespread human right abuses that could intensify with President Rodrigo Duterte's extension of martial law there, UN-appointed experts said.

Bali's palm-fringed Kuta beach has long been a favourite with tourists seeking sun and surf, but nowadays its golden shoreline is

South Korea's 2015 deal with Japan over Tokyo's wartime sex slavery was "seriously flawed", President Moon Jae-In said yesterday, telling officials to re-examine the controversial agreement.

China sentenced an activist known by the online pseudonym "Super Vulgar Butcher" to eight years in prison Tuesday, one of the

The controversial trial of staff from Turkey's main opposition newspaper accused of terror links resumed yesterday, in

Authorities in Vietnam prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast yesterday as

China has "reasonably" expanded its islands in the disputed South China Sea and this year construction projects there