Four Indian police officers were suspended yesterday after it emerged they had refused to help a woman who had

The United Nations called on Australia to stop a "humanitarian emergency" unfolding at a detention centre in Papua New Guinea

Chinese President Xi Jinping replied to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's congratulatory message on China's Communist Party

Iranian environmentalists have mobilised to protect the world's last Asiatic cheetahs, estimated to number just 50 and faced with the threats of becoming roadkill, a shortage of prey and farmers' dogs.

Three-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ranks 30th on the 2017 Power Women list of Forbes magazine. She was 36th last year and 59th in 2015.

Amid continuing influx of Rohingyas who have been fleeing persecution in Myanmar by security forces, the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, urges her people “not to quarrel”.

Japan's parliament yesterday formally re-elected Shinzo Abe as prime minister after his party's crushing election

At least 13 people including a pregnant woman were killed when an electricity transformer exploded outside a wedding

India will purchase more than 100 armed helicopters for its navy to replace its outdated French-designed fleet in a

Bangladesh ranks sixth among the Asian countries with 614,000 people displaced in their own country, according to a recent report of the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Japanese police have found nine mutilated bodies hidden in containers with their heads cut off and flesh stripped in a suburban Tokyo

China yesterday rejected as "false and untrue" a media report that it was planning to build a 1,000- km long tunnel to divert water

More than 200 people are feared to have died when a tunnel caved in at North Korea's nuclear test site after its latest detonation, a

The United Nations names a new interim UN resident coordinator for Myanmar on Tuesday, appointing Knut Ostby of Norway to take over the humanitarian role at a time of growing strains with the Myanmar government over the handling of the Rohingya crisis.

Japanese police finds nine mutilated bodies hidden in containers with their heads cut off and flesh stripped in a suburban Tokyo flat, media reports.

Xi Jinping Thought will now be taught, researched and promoted in universities across China, ensuring that the leader's eponymous

Fake news has made Asians amused, bewildered and in some cases deeply anguished about the turn of events. A growing number of such instances, coupled with the lack of adequate regulation, damaging consequences for legacy media and repercussions on efforts to build informed societies, is stoking debate anew on tackling the issue.

The irresistible shift toward digitisation is sweeping through Japan’s three megabanks. Amid a drive toward greater efficiency and higher profits, artificial intelligence and robot technology are increasingly replacing roles typically handled by thousands of bank employees.

One-on-one online teaching for children, especially English lessons taught by teachers who are native speakers of the language, is becoming increasingly popular in China.

Pakistan yesterday released 68 Indian fishermen held for trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said. Indian and