Myanmar's military has maintained ties with North Korea, even though the civilian-led government denies any

China is the world's largest holder of foreign exchange reserves. It has over two and half times more foreign reserves than the second largest reserve holder, Japan. The Asian giant has US$3.483 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, despite recent fall in foreign reserves.

Hours before proposed military talks between South and North Korea, Pyongyang yesterday still refused to confirm its participation,

Gunmen ambushed a car and killed four family members from the Shia Muslim minority in a sectarian attack in

The nephew of Maldives president Abdulla Yameen has been arrested for allegedly bribing politicians to challenge the

A top Indian diplomat said China is being unusually aggressive in a month-old border dispute with India that shows

Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya

Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany are among the best placed wealthy countries to cope with shocks like large-scale migration due to their strong safety nets, education programmes and economic opportunities, says a global report by KPMG.

President Rodrigo Duterte plans to extend martial law in the southern Philippines to defeat Islamist militants who have

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's security adviser told diplomats yesterday that a UN mission looking into

Malaysia's former leader Mahathir Mohamad urged the prime minister yesterday to attend a town hall meeting

India should not use “trespass” into the Doklam area in the Sikkim sector as a “policy tool” to achieve its “political

Plans are underway to rebrand palm oil, according to a Malaysian minister.

Japan yesterday downplayed South Korea's offer to hold military talks with North Korea, saying the priority should be piling pressure

A man was arrested for allegedly setting ablaze a two-storey house in eastern China on Sunday, killing 22 people and injuring three,

The ashes of China's late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo were scattered in the sea yesterday after a controversial funeral, as

India's next president will emerge from the Dalit caste -- a community so marginalised they were once known as

Visitors will not be allowed to set foot on a men-only UNESCO World Heritage island in Japan from next year, an

Comedy group AIB has been accused of posting offensive content on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a complaint filed by the Mumbai police.

Web-based Telegram is blocked in Indonesia as the government finds some of its users promote radicalism and terrorism in the web.