Sri Lanka's prime minister yesterday promised tougher legislation to deal with hate crimes after an upsurge in attacks

Tightly-ruled Singapore was rocked by an unprecedented political drama yesterday when a feud between the

North Korea has released 22-year-old US student Otto Warmbier from a 15 year sentence of hard labor, officials said yesterday, as

Panama and China announced yesterday they were establishing diplomatic relations, as the Central American nation became the latest to

A western Indian state has agreed to write off loans to farmers estimated to be worth nearly $5 billion after 11 days of

Bomb blasts rocked Marawi City in the southern Philippines yesterday as the national flag was raised to mark

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be questioned on Thursday by investigators probing how his family

A Japanese zoo celebrates the first birth of a baby panda in five years, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand.

A family in Phitsanulok’s Muang district in Thailand has opened its doors – with free accommodation for foreign backpackers to expose their two young sons to everyday use of English.

Electric sports sedan glides through Seoul - all you have to do is listen carefully to what a voice from a navigation program tells you and press pedals.

At least two American soldiers are killed and two others wounded when an Afghan commando opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, a local official says.

Bangladesh ranks sixth among the world’s top 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to the Global Climate Risk Index by think-tank Germanwatch. On an average, a total of 679.05 people died in 185 climatic events in Bangladesh within the period of 1996 to 2015.

Japan's parliament passed a law yesterday that clears the way for its ageing Emperor Akihito to step down, in what would be the first

An AI machine has taken the maths section of China's annual university entrance exam, finishing it faster than students but with a below

North Korea fired what appeared to be several land-to-ship missiles off its east coast yesterday, South Korea's military said, a day

Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the

Muslim scholars in Indonesia call on clerics to stay away from politics following the religious sentiment that may divide the country. Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) across the country are told to stay away from politics.

The conclusion of Reuters’ second annual ranking of the Asia Pacific region’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science and invent new technologies.

South Korea will suspend any further deployment of a controversial US missile defence system until an environmental impact assessment

A Pentagon report released on Tuesday singled out Pakistan as a possible location for a future Chinese military base, as it forecast that