Millions of Nepalis voted yesterday to choose a new parliament and 7 state assemblies more than a decade after

Thousands more protesters massed in Pakistan's major cities yesterday after attempts to disperse an Islamist rally in

As more victims step out to tell of sexual harassment in the United States and Europe, The Straits Times Asian bureaus look at how the region perceives this rarely publicly-discussed issue.

A former vice-minister of health in China dismissed the possibility of clinical trials involving a human head transplant, adding that an experiment done in China had severely violated ethical rules.

Pakistan's finance minister Ishaq Dar has gone on indefinite medical leave amid an ongoing corruption scandal, piling more pressure on

India yesterday said it was outraged at Pakistan's release of an Islamist leader accused of organising the 2008 deadly

Australia and Southeast Asia have joined forces to choke financing for militant networks, Canberra said yesterday,

An Indian soldier shot dead a journalist following a dispute, police said yesterday, the country's third high-profile

Driverless buses will appear on some roads in Singapore from 2022 as part of plans to improve mobility in the land-

A Pakistani court yesterday ordered the release of one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks which

North Korea yesterday condemned its US terror listing as a "serious provocation" , warning that sanctions would

Unicef has shown a deep concern over reports suggesting high levels of bacterial contamination (E.coli) from water drawn from wells inside the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Chittagong.

Diabetic patients will be relieved to know that they need not totally remove their favourite foods from their to-eat list. There are a few ways to achieve normal and stable blood sugar ­levels. Dietitian Poh Kai Ling explains how.

Japan has unveiled its first quantum computer prototype, amid a global race to build ever-more powerful machines with faster speeds and larger brute force that are key towards realising the full potential of artificial intelligence.

Sri Lanka's parliament yesterday announced an investigation into how the private phone records of legislators were

China yesterday called for extra efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis through talks after US President Donald Trump re-branded Pyongyang as a state sponsor of terrorism.

China yesterday criticised a visit by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind to the remote state of Arunachal Pradesh, which

A Chinese special envoy yesterday ended a four-day trip to North Korea during which the two sides discussed regional

Indonesia's parliament speaker, Setya Novanto, has been taken into custody by the anti-corruption agency after

Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterda6y tore into the Narendra Modi government for its "arrogance", for