Singapore criminalises AI-generated abuse images
14 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Cyber threat: North Korean hackers build AI tools for attacks
11 August 2026
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Asia
Ex-Thai MP shoots dead official over money row
11 August 2026
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Asia
Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row
10 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Thai teen kills 7 in rampage at home, school
8 August 2026
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Asia
Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting
7 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Four dead, 15 injured in Thailand school shooting: deputy minister
7 August 2026
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Asia
North Korea fires short-range ballistic missile
7 August 2026
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Asia
Indian visa scam alert: High Commission warns applicants in Bangladesh
6 August 2026
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South Asia
Pakistan restricts international media reporting outside main cities
6 August 2026
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South Asia
Extradite Dawood, India tells Pak
After the UN confirmation of Dawood Ibrahim's addresses in Pakistan, India said on Friday that it was incumbent upon Islamabad
27 August 2016
Japan PM pledges $30b for Africa
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday told African leaders that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private
27 August 2016
Kashmir curfew enters day-50
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested a top separatist leader, his aide said yesterday, as the region's chief minister met
27 August 2016
Bus plunges into Nepal river; 21 killed
A packed passenger bus plunged into a river early yesterday in central Nepal, killing 21 people, a senior local official
26 August 2016
US aid to Pak shrinks
Pakistan's continued support for resurgent militant groups hostile to the United States, coupled with warming US
26 August 2016
Nasheed meets exiled opposition groups
The Maldives' dissident former president met opposition groups in neighbouring Sri Lanka yesterday to hatch a plan
26 August 2016
Indian dargah ordered to lift ban on women
A centuries-old Islamic mausoleum was yesterday ordered to allow women to enter its inner sanctum, with an Indian
26 August 2016
Myanmar weighs quake damage
Myanmar took stock of toppled spires and crumbling temple walls in the ancient capital Bagan yesterday after a
25 August 2016
Maldives leader faces plot to overthrow him
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen, whose administration has jailed most of his opponents, is aware of an
25 August 2016
One more Kashmiri protester killed
One protester was killed yesterday in fresh clashes with security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said.
24 August 2016
Protests as projectile reaches Japan ADIZ
North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile yesterday that flew about 500 km towards Japan, a show of
24 August 2016
Nepal PM to visit India to mend ties
Nepal's new prime minister will visit India next month on his first foreign visit, seeking to repair the strained
24 August 2016
Suu Kyi picks Annan to lead commission
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi picked former UN chief Kofi Annan yesterday to lead a commission to stop human
24 August 2016
Pak exiled MQM chief charged with treason
Pakistani police yesterday charged exiled Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, which rules Karachi, with treason
23 August 2016
FB users indicted for mocking Thai leader
A Thai military tribunal yesterday indicted eight people with sedition for running a Facebook page that mocked the
23 August 2016
Pakistan wary as Afghans push India for more arms
India is set to deliver more arms to Afghanistan to help it fight Islamist militants, Kabul's envoy to New Delhi said,
23 August 2016
Over 300 killed in India floods
A t least 300 people have died in eastern and central India and more than six million others have been affected by
23 August 2016
Rio Olympics: 'Good-time' Indian officials under fire for flop
As Olympic under-achievers India head home from Rio having failed to win a gold medal, its gate-crashing, selfie-taking officials have been accused of failing to help its athletes taste success.
22 August 2016
Rodrigo Duterte threatens to leave UN
President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday threatened to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations, as he launched another profanity-
21 August 2016
Afghan district falls to Taliban: officials
Taliban militants yesterday captured a district in northeastern Kunduz province, near the provincial capital where militants scored their
20 August 2016