China yesterday issued tighter rules for online news portals and network providers, the latest step in President Xi

Thailand's new king was granted control over five state agencies that oversee royal affairs and security yesterday, the

India yesterday warned Pakistan of an "unequivocal" response to the killing and mutilation of two soldiers yesterday

Samsung Electronics is predicted to become the world’s largest chipmaker in the coming quarter, displacing Intel, which has retained the top spot for the past 24 years.

As many as 249 lawmakers from the two big ruling parties -- Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN (Maoist Centre) -- register a motion at the Parliament Secretariat seeking to impeach Sushila Karki, the first female chief justice of Nepal, charging her with infringing upon the executive’s jurisdiction and nurturing factionalism in the judiciary.

South Korea and the United States wrapped up their annual large-scale military drills yesterday, but continued a separate joint naval exercise that has triggered dire threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile yesterday in apparent defiance of a concerted US push for tougher international sanctions to

Sepang boss Razlan Razali has urged Formula One's new owners to "put their ego aside" and learn from the "two wheels" of Moto GP if they are to revive their sport.

At least 130 executions were carried out in 11 Asian countries in 2016. The vast majority of them were executed in Pakistan and 10 in Bangladesh. However there is no data available about executions in China, still believed to be by far the world’s top executioner.

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile, the South Korean and US militaries say, defying warnings from the United States and the reclusive state's main ally, China, which have tried for years to rein in its arms programmes.

Seoul yesterday brushed aside US President Donald Trump's suggestion it should pay for a $1 billion missile defence system the two

Four Thai army rangers were shot dead in an ambush after a roadside bomb toppled their truck in Thailand's

Nine democracy protesters were yesterday arrested in Hong Kong over an anti-Beijing rally in the latest swoop by

Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs used for the Vikasnagar constituency in the Uttarakhand assembly elections earlier

Troops in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators outside an army garrison

China has fundamentally altered the physical and political landscape in the strategic South China Sea through

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday ordered internet service providers to block popular social media

Legions of Japanese crisps addicts are suffering. The country is in the midst of a dire crisps shortage after violent

Two Hong Kong independence activists who were barred from taking up their seats as lawmakers last year were

BJP president Amit Shah yesterday took a dig at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and said she is suffering