Detested in Myanmar, Rohingyas desperately seeking sanctuary will get a new reminder today of just how unloved

China's ambassador to Washington on Friday called on the United States to refrain from making threats over North

A new Pakistani political party controlled by an Islamist with a $10 million US bounty on his head is backing a

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party is facing its first major political challenge in a by-election

A Pakistani Christian man has been sentenced to death for blasphemy after he sent a Muslim friend a poem on

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal from former prime minister Nawaz Sharif against his disqualification

Philippine President Duterte may declare nationwide martial law if threatened protests by communists and other leftists

A North Korean state agency yesterday threatened to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and

A feather from one of the most elusive birds in the world has been found in South Australia, the first proof in more than a century that

The world's oldest captive giant panda has died at the ripe old age of 37 -- more than 100 in human years -- her handlers in China said

Timor Leste, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan have the highest rates of undernourishment in Asia, according to the Asian Development Bank.

The UN Security Council has unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea, slapping a ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of oil products to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and largest nuclear test.

Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution urging the United Nations and the international community to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Myanmar government to take back Rohingya people, ensure their safe accommodation and give citizenship rights.

North Korea's nuclear weapons programme must be “halted” before it develops a missile capable of hitting London,

Malaysia will do what it can to help Bangladesh deal with the growing influx of Rohingya who have fled here to escape the violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, says Malaysian Prime Minister​ Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

The United Nations has appealed for aid to deal with a humanitarian crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh after the number of Muslim Rohingya fleeing Myanmar neared 300,000, just two weeks after violence erupted there.

South Korea braced for a possible further missile test by North Korea as it marked its founding anniversary

Former BJP leader and RSS ideologue K N Govindacharya on Friday approached the Supreme Court with a petition

A team of six naval officers are starting a historic and gruelling around-the-world mission today -- the first

China has tightened regulations on religious freedom, intensifying punishments for unsanctioned activities and increasing its supervision